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COLTON (GEORGE WOOLWORTH) Colton's General Atlas... Accompanied by Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical and Historical by Richard Fisher, New York, J.H. Colton and Co., 1859
15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge£2,000 - £2,500
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COLTON (GEORGE WOOLWORTH)
Colton's General Atlas... Accompanied by Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical and Historical by Richard Fisher, engraved allegorical frontispiece by F.A. Chapman, 96 engraved maps and town plans (all but 5 hand-coloured, 6 double-page), occasional light toning, publisher's decorative morocco, blocked in blind and gilt, g.e., extremities lightly rubbed but generally a good, bright copy, large 4to (447 x 374mm.), New York, J.H. Colton and Co., 1859
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An attractive copy, in the publisher's decorative binding, of Colton's atlas, in which approximately half of the maps are devoted to the United States with state maps and city plans.
Provenance: Thomas Greer, nineteenth century bookplate.





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