[Rarebooks] FS: Johnson ATLAS, 1867, with 105 Hand-Colored Maps

[Charles Agvent]

[JOHNSON, A. J.] FISHER, Richard Swainson. JOHNSON'S NEW ILLUSTRATED 
FAMILY ATLAS OF THE WORLD with Physical Geography, and with 
Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, Including the 
Latest Federal Census, and the Existing Religious Denominations in the 
World. New York: A. J. Johnson, 1867. First Edition. Large folio (15" x 
18-1/2") bound in original decorated cloth with gilt-lettered and 
decorated brown morocco leather spine and corners. Complete with 105 
numbered hand-colored maps (many double-page) including insets; 2 
unnumbered hand-colored maps; 2 hand-colored plates showing world time 
differences and flags of the world (double-page), 5 charts showing the 
heights of mountains and lengths of rivers of the world (on 2 pages), 6 
physical maps (on 2 pages), 6 hand-colored globe illustrations, and the 
East and West Hemispheres (full-page); plus an engraved frontispiece 
from a photograph of the U.S. Capitol building. Many of the maps are of 
the Americas, primarily the United States, including the Civil War "Map 
of the Vicinity of Richmond and Peninsular Campaign in Virginia," a nice 
double-page map of Texas, and the large "California, Utah, Nevada, 
Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona" map. Scattered, light foxing, 
confined mostly to the margins, the coloring bright and bold; Map 27/28 
of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island neatly separated at the 
fold with some fraying to the left margin; a few other maps partially 
separated at the fold. Splitting at the hinges, primarily the front, 
with both covers internally reinforced at the joints with cloth tape. 
Overall Very Good and complete. (#020264)        $1,500

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