COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Short Title:
Text page: Publishers' Advertisement.
Obj Height cm:
45
Obj Width cm:
36
Note:
Discusses the sources of the various maps. Author's note: " A knowledge of Geography is most easily acquired by the study of perfect and authentic maps... The maps referring to the United States have been drawn from the public archives. The surveys made under the authority of the General Land Office and Coast-Survey Office... Maps of the country north of the United states have been chiefly drawn from the colonial Surveys...."
Reference:
cfP4348.
Full Title:
(Text Page) Publishers' Advertisement.
List No:
0152.005
Series No:
5
Pub Date:
1869
Pub Title:
Colton's General Atlas, Containing One Hundred And Eighty Steel Plate Maps And Plans, On One Hundred And Nineteen Imperial Folio Sheets, Drawn By G. Woolworth Colton. Letter-Press Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, And Historical, By Richard Swainson Fisher. New York: G.W. & C.B. Colton, No. 172 William Street. 1874. Entered ... 1863, by J.H. Colton ... New York..
Pub Reference:
cfP4348.
Pub Note:
This edition changes the U.S. map, adds Wyoming to the North America map, adds the map of the northwest states and several other maps (but not to the U.S. map). Has an unusual Alaska map. In several of the western maps (Iowa, etc.) the phrase "Township Map of..." that appeared in the 1868 atlas, is dropped. Florida and New Jersey are enlarged to double page. Relief shown by hachures. Political units (mostly counties) shown in color.
Pub List No:
0152.000
Pub Maps:
101
Pub Height cm:
45
Pub Width cm:
39
Image No:
0152005
Publisher Location:
New York
Publisher:
G. W & C. B. Colton & Co.
Type:
Advertisement
Publication Author:
Colton, G.W.
Publication Author:
Fisher, Richard Swainson
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Author:
Colton, G.W.
Date:
1869
Text page: Publishers' Advertisement.
