COLTON, J.H.

Colton's Railroad & Township Map. Western States compiled from the United States surveys

New York: J.H. Colton, 1853. Folding colored map, 36¼ x 43½ inches. Publisher's half sheep embossed cloth binding (6¼ x 4¼ inches), front cover gilt. Front and rear covers lightly worn. Publisher's advertisement on front pastedown. Broadside entitled "Comparative statistics of the Western States" (13 x 11½ inches) tipped on map. Light stains in margin of broadside, margins and cartouche of map.Clean tears at folds in map and in decorative border near broadside. A very good copy, with vibrant color. Map, with period hand-colouring, 36 1/4 x 43 1/2 inches, with smaller format folding letterpress table tipped in, both folding into original roan binding, the covers elaborately blocked in blind, the upper cover titled in gilt `Map of / the Western / States / J.H. Colton.', paper pastedowns, the pastedown on the upper cover printed with publisher's advertisement (rebacked in cloth).

A highly detailed, large-scale map of the midwestern states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota, with additional vignettes of St. Louis, Louisville, and Cincinnati.

The eastern and southern parts are well developed, but northern Michigan and Wisconsin, western Iowa, and particularly Minnesota, are still in a primitive condition. Excellent information on early roads, railroads, canals, counties, towns, and townships.

Item #17004

Price: $1,250.00