With 102 pages of lithographed maps and plans, all but a few hand-colored, 6 are double-page (counting as two numbers), many with insets; hand-colored double-page plate of comparative mountains and rivers of the world; steel-engraved frontispiece. (folio) 44.5x37.5 cm. (17½x14¾"), original full morocco stamped in gilt and blind, all edges gilt.

The scarce 1859 edition of Colton's General Atlas, with maps of the various states and regions of the U.S. and the rest of the world. Among the more remarkable maps in this edition is "Colton's Territories of New Mexico and Utah," which has Utah, New Mexico and Arizona parallel to each other, in that order, with Arizona named but only in ghost-like letters, all three stretching westward to the California border. There is a large, double-page map of Texas, an interesting map of the northwest with Washington including what was later Idaho and portions of Montana, and many other interesting configurations and features as the American West was gradually forming itself into its present familiar states. Phillips Atlases 827 (citing 1858 edition).