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With 110 hand-colored maps and plans (7 are double-page), plus insets, 5 other single-page maps not colored, all on 102 map-sheets; a steel-engraved plate before the title page and a double-page hand-colored engraving of the major mountains and rivers of the world, after the title page. (Folio) 17½x15, original quarter brown sheep and cloth, lettered in gilt, marbled page edges and endpapers.

Colton was one of the pre-eminent American map publishing firms in the mid-nineteenth century, which began publishing maps in the 1830's. Contains numerous sought after single page state maps with city insets. The double page maps are of: the World; United States; New York; New York City and Adjacent Cities; Texas; Kansas and Nebraska; and England and Wales. With 43 maps focusing on the United States, including a fascinating map of the United States showing an early configuration of the West with much of the Upper Plains marked Nebraska and Dakota. New Mexico and Arizona are together with New Mexico lettering darker and extends from Texas to the California border with Arizona directly south of it. Although listed as a single page map, a double page map of Kansas and Nebraska appears. It 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. A map of Washington and Oregon with strange Washington configuration, extending across much of Montana, Idaho and slightly beyond. Single page 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. Different previous owner's label, signature, rubberstamps and related photocopy sheet on the front endpaper and preliminary leaves.