Subject: Eastern United States
Period: 1855 (dated)
Publication: Atlas of the World
Color: Hand Color
Lot of four maps: "Colton's New York", double-page (25 x 17"); "Colton's Connecticut with Portions of New York & Rhode Island"; "Colton's Maine"; and "Colton's Vermont" (single sheets approximately 15.5 x 12.5"). All with good impressions and coloring. New York features numerous large insets of cities including Buffalo, Rochester, Troy and Albany. All with great detail of towns, roads, canals and railways. Surrounded in Colton's distinctive scroll border.
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Condition: B
Marginal staining with some into strapwork borders. New York with additional staining near Long Island and into the title area. Connecticut with two tears just into map, with old paper repairs.