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With 94 hand-colored maps and plans (4 are double-page, U.S. map bound-upside down), plus the insets; also, 5 black and white plates with a total of 17 maps (2 are full-page), all on 96 map-sheets; plus a hand-colored lithograph plate before the title page. (Folio) 17x14, original half sheep and brown cloth, lettered in gilt.

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. With 60 hand-colored maps focusing on the Americas, including a fascinating double-page map of the United States showing an early configuration of the West with much of the Upper Plains covered by an extended Nebraska and Minnesota. New Mexico and Arizona are together represented just as “New Mexico” and extends from Texas to the California border and a portion of modern-day Nevada and Colorado. Nevada and Colorado not named and large portions covered by an extended Utah. A single page Utah/New Mexico map shows Utah stretching from the Kansas/Nebraska border in the Rockies to California, encompassing much of Colorado, Utah, and Nevada. New Mexico extends from Texas west to California. 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 City; Texas; and England and Wales. City plans include: Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Savannah/ Charleston, Louisville/New Orleans, Pittsburgh/Cincinnati, St. Louis/Chicago, London and Paris (both black and white). Plus many other maps of North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceanica, etc. Phillips Atlases 827 (citing 1858 edition).