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Title: Colton's General Atlas, Containing One Hundred and Eighty Steel Plate Maps and Plans...Letter-Press Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, by Richard S. Fisher Author: Colton, G[eorge] Woolworth Place: New York Publisher: J. H. Colton Date: 1860 Description: With 104 hand-colored maps & plans, etc. (7 are double-page), plus insets, and 5 other single-page maps not colored, all on 100 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) 17¼x14¾, original half black morocco and brown cloth rebacked with original gilt-lettered morocco spine laid on, front cover lettered in gilt. Contains numerous sought after single page state maps with city insets and many U.S. city maps, many with two on a single page. The double page maps are of: the World; the United States; New York and Adjacent Cities; State of New York; Texas; Kansas and Nebraska; and England. With 47 maps focusing on the United States, including six double-page maps. A fascinating map of the United States showing an early configuration of the American West as it was gradually forming itself into its present familiar states: shows much of the Upper Plains marked Nebraska and Dakota; Washington extends to include much of present-day Idaho; a much larger New Mexico is directly above Arizona and both extend from Texas to California; and, although Nevada is shaded and lightly marked Nevada, it is still part of Utah. The double page map of Kansas and Nebraska is listed as a single page map on the contents page; shows county development along the Missouri but little western detail. 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. The Texas map includes insets of the Northern Part of Texas (colored), Sabine Lake, and Galveston Bay. Full-page California map with inset of San Francisco. Single page city plans include Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Georgetown, 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. Lot Amendments Condition: Rubbing and edge wear, some scratches, small piece of cloth missing on rear cover, corners bumped; hinges reinforced with black paper tape; mild toning, scattered light foxing, occasional marginal tears; very good overall in a sturdy binding. Item number: 144287