Title: Colton's General Atlas, Containing One Hundred and Eighty Steel-Plate Maps and Plans, on One Hundred and Eight Imperial Folio Sheets, Accompanied by One Hundred and Sixty-Eight Pages Letter-Press Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, by Richard S. Fisher, M.D. Author: Colton, George Woolworth Place: New York Publisher: J.H. Colton Date: 1861 Description: With engraved frontispiece, letterpress title, contents leaf and text, plus hand-colored lithographed maps throughout, some double-page. 44.3x36.5 cm (17½x14½"), original full embossed reddish-brown morocco pictorially stamped & lettered in gilt, spine tooled & lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Colton's massive General Atlas, the various editions of which dominated America's cartographic consciousness during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The double page maps are of: the World; the United States; New York and Adjacent Cities; State of New York; Texas; Kansas and Nebraska; and England. With 48 maps focusing on the United States, The a double page map of Kansas and Nebraska shows county development along the Missouri but little western detail. Texas appears on a double page map with insets of the Northern Part of Texas, Sabine Lake, and Galveston Bay. California map with inset of San Francisco. City plans include Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Savannah/Charleston, Louisville/New Orleans, Pittsburgh/Cincinnati, St. Louis/Chicago, London (black and white), and Paris (black and white). Plus many maps of North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceanica. Provenance: Brick Row 6/73 References: This edition not in P-LG. Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers. Lot Amendments Condition: Just a little rubbing to binding around the edges; some minor darkening/offset within; very good, a handsome atlas. Item number: 271786
Title: Colton's General Atlas, Containing One Hundred and Eighty Steel-Plate Maps and Plans, on One Hundred and Eight Imperial Folio Sheets, Accompanied by One Hundred and Sixty-Eight Pages Letter-Press Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, by Richard S. Fisher, M.D. Author: Colton, George Woolworth Place: New York Publisher: J.H. Colton Date: 1861 Description: With engraved frontispiece, letterpress title, contents leaf and text, plus hand-colored lithographed maps throughout, some double-page. 44.3x36.5 cm (17½x14½"), original full embossed reddish-brown morocco pictorially stamped & lettered in gilt, spine tooled & lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Colton's massive General Atlas, the various editions of which dominated America's cartographic consciousness during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The double page maps are of: the World; the United States; New York and Adjacent Cities; State of New York; Texas; Kansas and Nebraska; and England. With 48 maps focusing on the United States, The a double page map of Kansas and Nebraska shows county development along the Missouri but little western detail. Texas appears on a double page map with insets of the Northern Part of Texas, Sabine Lake, and Galveston Bay. California map with inset of San Francisco. City plans include Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Savannah/Charleston, Louisville/New Orleans, Pittsburgh/Cincinnati, St. Louis/Chicago, London (black and white), and Paris (black and white). Plus many maps of North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceanica. Provenance: Brick Row 6/73 References: This edition not in P-LG. Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers. Lot Amendments Condition: Just a little rubbing to binding around the edges; some minor darkening/offset within; very good, a handsome atlas. Item number: 271786
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