Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas.
New York: Johnson and Ward, 1862.
Large 4to, 18 1/2 x 15 ins., 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); complete, with the pictorially engraved additional title page (titled "American Atlas"); plus numerous wood engravings within the text. Original half morocco and green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind on covers, spine gilt. Binding sound but stained on the lower half of the upper cover; internally very good, complete.
§ Johnson's 1862 Civil War era atlas, recording the Gadsen Purchase and the new southern border. 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 "Arrizona" 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. Item #126345
Price: $4,950.00