Johnson's Civil War era Atlas 1861
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Author: Johnson, A. J. & J. H. Colton
Title: Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas, with descriptions, geographical, statistical, and historical
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Johnson and Browning
Date Published: 1861
Description:
99 text pages + plates. Illustrated with 62 hand-colored maps (2 of which are unpaginated, 28 are double-page) by Johnson and Ward; 2 hand-colored plates, including chart of the rivers & mountains (double-page) and a time diagram; 6 hand-colored charts on 3 pages. Contents leaf shows plates numbered up to 99 (with many maps double page, taking two numbers, and there are many inset maps, not numbered separately), and the atlas is complete. Also, a pictorially engraved additional title page (titled "American Atlas"); plus numerous wood engravings within the text. (Folio) 46x37 cm (18x14½"), rebacked quarter morocco & cloth, front cover and spine lettered in gilt; new endpapers.
Johnson's 1862 Civil War era atlas. Includes double-page maps of: the World; North America; New England; New York (with 7 insets); Texas (with 3 insets); California with New Mexico (with a small Arizona underneath), Utah, Nevada and Colorado; plus several other states; South America; Europe and some of its' individual countries; Africa; Roman Empire; and a full-page city plan of Washington DC. The two unpaginated maps are a Military Map of the United States (with 9 hand-colored insets) and the Russian Empire. Previous ownership marks and some stamps on pastedown and front free endpaper.
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