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2 volumes. Vol. I with 61 hand-colored maps (2 are double-page), plus insets, and 1 plate with 4 maps not colored, all on 59 map-sheets; Vol. II with 42 hand-colored maps and charts (3 are double-page), plus insets, and 6 plates containing 15 maps that are not colored (including plans for London and Paris), all on 45 map-sheets; Vol. I with added pictorial steel-engraved title page; Vol. II with steel-engraved plate before title page. (Folio) 18½x16, original ¼ morocco and cloth, spine and front cover decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt.

A mixed year two volume set of Colton’s important "Atlas of the World" published in the mid-1850’s. Volume I (1855) with U.S. maps, of: Nebraska and Kanzas (sic) with an extra large Nebraska, no Montana and portions of Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin; Texas with two inset plans for Galveston Bay and Sabine Lake and shows roads and trails going into Mexico; map for the Territories of New Mexico and Utah showing Fremont's 1844-45 routes; California with an inset of San Francisco and shows Atlantic and Pacific R.R. lines; Washington and Oregon Territories with extended land mass. Also, nice double-page maps of the United States and New York City; plus city plans for Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Savannah, Charleston, Louisville, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Chicago. Volume II (1856) with maps outside of the America’s, covering European countries, Australia, Arabia, Asia, Islands of the Pacific Ocean and a chart showing the mountains and rivers of the world. Gift inscription from 1856 on the front pastedown. See Phillips Atlases 816 (citing the 1856 two volume edition).