Goodrich Geography with colored maps 1855
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Author: Goodrich, S[amuel] G[riswold]
Title: The World as it Is, and as it Has Been; or a Comprehensive Geography and History, Ancient and Modern
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Published by J.H. Colton & Co.
Date Published: 1855
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272 + [7] ad pp. With 71 hand-colored maps (15 are full-page, 1 double-page map of the United States, plus large folding map of the U.S. glued on the rear pastedown); numerous wood engravings throughout (some of which are small maps). (4to) 26.5x20 cm (10¼x8"), original gilt decorated and lettered cloth.
The hand-colored folding lithographed map glued to the rear pastedown is titled "The United States of America Published by J.H. Colton & Co.... 1855" with copyright date 1853. It measures 35.7x59.6 cm plus decorative border and wide margins. Warren Heckrotte comments that "The folding map is the same as that with the same title in Colton's Atlas, except for copyright date." He also notes that "The text describes the 'Great American Desert' and several of the maps in text delineate it."
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