With 94 hand-colored maps and plans (4 are double-page), plus the insets; also, 5 black and white plates with a total of 17 maps (2 are full-page), all on 96 map-sheets; plus a hand-colored lithograph plate before the title page. (Folio) 44x36.5 cm (17½x14¼"), original brown cloth lettered in gilt, leather corners, rebacked in brown morocco.

Colton's massive General Atlas, with 60 hand-colored maps focusing on the Americas, including a double-page map of the United States showing an early configuration of the West with much of the Upper Plains covered by an extended Nebraska and Minnesota. New Mexico and Arizona are together represented just as “New Mexico” and extends from Texas to the California border and a portion of modern-day Nevada and Colorado. Nevada and Colorado not named and large portions covered by an extended Utah. A single page Utah/New Mexico map shows Utah stretching from the Kansas/Nebraska border in the Rockies to California. Texas appears on a double page map with insets of the Northern Part of Texas, Sabine Lake, and Galveston Bay. A map showing Territories of Washington and Oregon shows little development west of the Cascade Mountains, but extends out into modern day Idaho.
 

Provenance: Golder, 9/91

 References: P-LG 827 (1858 ed.)