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COLTON, G.W. & C.B.
Colton's Railroad and County Map of the Southern States, Including the Latest Information
New York: Colton & Co., 1867. Full period color, 25¾ x 31½ inches, folding into gilt-stamped brown cloth covers. Ad for Colton laid down on inside front cover. Some repairs.
One of the finest general maps of the southern and border states of the Reconstruction period. It was designed to replace Colton's Civil War era map of the South (J.H. Colton's Map of the Southern States, 1861 and other editions). The map is on a grand scale of forty-eight miles to the inch, with fine inset maps of important Southern harbors, and excellent detail throughout, especially for the western areas: Kansas, the Indian Territory, and Texas. The routes of many explorers of the 1840s and '50s are laid down, as is the Pony Express Route ("U. S. Mail Route"). With eight insets: "Galveston and Vicinity Texas," "Vicinity of the Rio Grande," "New Orleans and Delta of the Mississippi Louisiana," "Mobile Harbor Alabama," "Entrance to Pensacola Bay Florida," "Wilmington and Vicinity N. Carolina," "Beaufort and Vicinity N. Carolina" and "Charleston Harbor and its Approaches S. Carolina." Not in Rumsey or Phillips.
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© 2002-2005 Donald A. Heald
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