Colton’s Octavo Atlas of the World: Containing fifty copperplate maps of two pages each, with Valuable tables of population statistics.

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• ARTIST: J. H. Colton

• PUBLISHER: Published by J.H. Colton, New York.

• MEDIUM: Stone engraved maps

  DATE: 1865.

• EDITION SIZE: Quarto, 9 3/4 x 6 1/2"

• DESCRIPTION: Total of 46 double-page maps and 1 folding map (California). Thirty of the maps relate to North America, with the balance consisting of South America (3), Europe (5), Asia (4), Africa (1), Australia (1), and World & Oceans (3). Issued around the conclusion of the Civil War, it contains several maps not seen in other larger Colton atlases including Maryland Delaware, and Eastern Virginia and East and West Virginia. This latter map shows the borders for the new state of West Virginia but is called Western Virginia.

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Original binding. Covers attached, barely. Spine is gone. Contents good. Original color.

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• CATEGORIES: Maps , Atlases