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Title: Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas, with descriptions, geographical, statistical, and historical Author: Johnson, A. J. & J. H. Colton Place: New York Publisher: Johnson & Ward Date: 1862 Description: 99 text pages + plates. With 58 hand-colored maps (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) 18x14½, original half morocco and brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind on covers, spine gilt. Johnson's 1862 Civil War era atlas. Includes double-page maps of: the World; North America; Military Map of the United States (with 9 hand-colored insets); 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. Lot Amendments Condition: Binding complete but detached, some wear and soiling to binding; dampstain in lower margin, foxing; good. Item number: 212206