2 volumes. Vol. I with cover title, Colton's Advertising Atlas of America, with full page advertisements for American businesses opposite maps throughout. With 62 plates of hand-colored lithographed maps (2 are double-page) and steel engraved vignette title page; Vol. II with 35 hand-colored plates of lithographed maps and charts and steel-engraved frontispiece. 47x40 cm (18½x16), period half maroon morocco and blind-stamped brown cloth, pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, marbled edges.
Colton's important and large "Atlas of the World" in two volumes. Volume I is the scarce Colton's Advertising Atlas of America with publication date of 1857, with adverts on endpapers as well as opposite maps throughout, with subscriber's presentation label from the publishers verso of title page. With U.S. maps, including a double-page Texas map with two inset plans for Galveston Bay and Sabine Lake showing roads and trails going into Mexico; Nebraska and Kanzas with an extra large Nebraska (no Montana and portions of Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin); 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. City plans for Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Savannah, Charleston, Louisville, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Chicago. Volume II with publication date of 1856, with maps outside of the Americas, covering European countries, Australia, Arabia, Asia, Islands of the Pacific Ocean and a chart showing the mountains and rivers of the world.
Condition:
Wear, soiling and some staining to bindings with rubbing to extremities, joints cracked or starting; hinges reinforced with cloth tape, offsetting to endpapers, foxing to frontispieces and light foxing throughout, some toning and offsetting to maps, wormhole damge to preliminary pages of vol. 2, all maps present and solid; very good.