Colton's General Atlas, containing One Hundred and Seventy Steel Plate Maps and Plans.

COLTON (Joseph Hutchins).

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Folio (450 x 375 mm); two volumes in one; ninety-nine maps in strong original color. Original brown cloth covered boards stamped in gilt with 'Colton's General Atlas With Descriptions'. Contemporary half calf with cloth-covered boards, gilt titling to front board; rebacked, corners rebuilt. Internally clean. This edition has double-page maps of Texas and Kansas with Nebraska. New York : Alvin Jewett Johnson, & Ross C. Browning, Fifth edition of Colton's world atlas, which was first published in 1856, and reprinted regularly thereafter.   John Hutchins Colton (1800-1893) was one of the leading American cartographic publishers. This atlas provides an encyclopaedic and up-to-date description of the world, the maps accompanied by text - "descriptions, geographical, stastistical, and historical" - compiled by  Richard S. Fisher. This atlas was published in 1859; in that year the failure of the Bolivian Government to pay a $25,000 bill for creating an atlas of that country forced Colton into bankruptcy, and the use of his plates passed to the partnership of Johnson and Browning. Reference: Phillips, Atlases, 827.…

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Title
Colton's General Atlas, containing One Hundred and Seventy Steel Plate Maps and Plans.
Author
COLTON (Joseph Hutchins).
Publication year
1859
Binding
Hardcover

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