Text by Richard Swainson Fisher. With 45 hand-colored map-sheets (one double-page of the Roman Empire in the back and many sheets with more than one map) by Colton; 3 hand-colored charts; the text is copiously illustrated throughout with wood engravings, plus frontispiece, and depiction of observatories. (Folio) 14½x12, original quarter morocco and blind-stamped brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt.

Colton's scarce 1859 Cabinet Atlas providing large amounts of historical text accompanying the maps and their place of origin. The majority of maps relate to the Americas (mostly of the United States). Phillips Atlases 4341.