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11:00 AM PT - Feb 16th, 2012
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Title: Colton's General Atlas, Containing One Hundred and Seventy Steel Plate Maps and Plans, on One Hundred Imperial Folio Sheets...Accompanied by Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, by Richard S. Fisher, M.D.
Author: Colton, G[eorge] Woolworth Description: With 90 hand-colored maps and plans (5 are double-page), plus the insets; also, 5 black and white map plates. (Folio), 43.5x36 cm. (17x14"), half morocco and cloth, re-backed, new endpapers.Colton's massive and important General Atlas, the various editions of which dominated America's cartographic consciousness during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Contains numerous sought after single page state maps, many with city insets. Texas appears on a double page map with insets of the Northern Part of Texas, Sabine Lake, and Galveston Bay. California map with large inset map of San Francisco. A map showing Territories of Washington and Oregon shows little development west of the Cascade Mountains, but extends out into modern day Idaho. The double-page maps include: United States, New York & surrounding cities, Texas, Kansas & Nebraska, and England & Wales. Phillips Atlases 827. Heading: zzf(Atlas)Place Published: New York Publisher: J.H. Colton & Company Date Published: 1858 Condition reportModerate to heavily worn at edges, plus many stains and much rubbing to cloth; double-page Texas map is chipped at edges, else maps are generally near fine, contents clean with scattered edge wear such as tiny tears and a few instances of marginal ink writing; very good. Lacks engraved title page.
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