Title: Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas, with descriptions, geographical, statistical, and historical
Author: Johnson, A. J. and J. H. Colton
Description: 99 text pages + plates. With 58 hand-colored maps (28 are double-page) by Johnson and Ward; 2 hand-colored plates, including chart of the rivers & mountains (double-page) and a time diagram; 6 hand-colored charts on 3 pages. Contents leaf shows plates numbered up to 99 (with many maps double page, taking two numbers, and there are many inset maps, not numbered separately), and the atlas is complete. Also, a pictorially engraved additional title page (titled "American Atlas"); plus numerous wood engravings within the text. (Folio) 18x14½, modern half morocco, original gilt-lettered and decorated portion of the front cover cloth laid on.Johnson's 1862 Civil War era atlas. Includes double-page maps of: the World; North America; Military Map of the United States (with 9 hand-colored insets); New England; New York (with 7 insets); Texas (with 3 insets); California with New Mexico (with a small Arizona underneath), Utah, Nevada and Colorado; plus several other states; South America; Europe and some of its' individual countries; Africa; Roman Empire; and a full-page city plan of Washington DC.
Heading: zzd(Atlas)Place Published: New York
Publisher: Johnson & Ward
Date Published: 1862
Author: Johnson, A. J. and J. H. Colton
Description: 99 text pages + plates. With 58 hand-colored maps (28 are double-page) by Johnson and Ward; 2 hand-colored plates, including chart of the rivers & mountains (double-page) and a time diagram; 6 hand-colored charts on 3 pages. Contents leaf shows plates numbered up to 99 (with many maps double page, taking two numbers, and there are many inset maps, not numbered separately), and the atlas is complete. Also, a pictorially engraved additional title page (titled "American Atlas"); plus numerous wood engravings within the text. (Folio) 18x14½, modern half morocco, original gilt-lettered and decorated portion of the front cover cloth laid on.Johnson's 1862 Civil War era atlas. Includes double-page maps of: the World; North America; Military Map of the United States (with 9 hand-colored insets); New England; New York (with 7 insets); Texas (with 3 insets); California with New Mexico (with a small Arizona underneath), Utah, Nevada and Colorado; plus several other states; South America; Europe and some of its' individual countries; Africa; Roman Empire; and a full-page city plan of Washington DC.
Heading: zzd(Atlas)Place Published: New York
Publisher: Johnson & Ward
Date Published: 1862
Condition report
Text leaves browned with dampstaining, but this does not greatly affect most of the maps, which do have occasional minor spotting and soiling; very good overall.
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Americana - Exploration - Natural History
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