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

COLTON (Joseph Hutchins).

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

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, 1859.

£4,000.00

COLTON (Joseph Hutchins).

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

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

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