COLTON, George Woolworth (1827–1901).

COLTON, George Woolworth (1827–1901). Colton’s General Atlas…Accompanied by Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical by Richard S. Fisher. New York and London: J.H. Colton and Company; Trübner and Company, 1857. Folio (432 x 356 mm). Tinted engraved frontispiece, 96 steel engraved maps (6 double-page), 92 with hand-coloring, with insets (some minor offsetting to plates and text, a bit of marginal browning, else fine). Original publisher's half roan gilt, gilt–lettered green cloth (spotting and staining to covers, joints and corners a bit rubbed, renewed endpapers). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the Preface dated 19 March 1856. The maps of the United States and Minnesota include Dakota. “Unique to this year’s edition is a separate page of five illustrated views that precedes the title page” (Rumsey). Phillips 6129; Rumsey 150.