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With 95 hand-colored maps and plans (4 are double-page), plus the insets; and 6 black and white plates with a total of 18 maps (3 are full-page); all on 96 map-sheets; plus a hand-colored lithograph plate before the title page. (Folio) 17¼x14, original half sheep and brown cloth, lettered in gilt, all edges gilt.

Colton's massive 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 48 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 represented just as “New Mexico” and extends from Texas to the California border and up to where Nevada is today. The full-page Minnesota map includes much of modern day North and South Dakota. 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 maps of North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceanica. Phillips Atlases 827 (citing 1858 edition).