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Title: Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas, with Physical Geography, and with Descriptions Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, Including the Latest Federal Census, a Geographical Index, and a Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher Author: Johnson, A. J. and J. H. Colton Place: New York Publisher: Johnson and Ward Date: 1863 Description: With a pictorial engraved additional title page (titled "American Atlas"), chart of the rivers & mountains, color lithographed plate of flags, time chart, coat of arms (not colored), and numerous hand-colored lithograph maps by Johnson and Colton, plates numbered to 97 (with many maps double page, taking two numbers, and there are many inset maps, not numbered separately). (Folio) 18x14¼, original quarter green morocco and cloth decoratively lettered in gilt, with gilt seal of the U.S. on front cover, marbled endpapers and page edges. Johnson's 1863 atlas, which includes the large-scale double-page map of the Vicinity of Richmond and the Peninsular Campaign in Virginia...," showing the country between Richmond and Hampton Roads; also, a double-page maps of Texas; New York; and other states, including the entire southwest region with Arizona underneath New Mexico. Also, a full-page map showing Nebraska (oddly shaped), Dakota (very large), Colorado & Kansas with Dakota encompassing most of present-day Montana and Wyoming. Phillips Atlases 843 (citing 1864 edition). Lot Amendments Condition: Rubbing, ends and corners a bit worn, scattered light stains; some finger-soiling chiefly to margins, map of Ohio and Indiana nearly split at centerfold; maps clean and bright; else very good overall. Item number: 144317