Map of the United States of America, The British Provinces, Mexico, the West Indies and Central America, with part of New Grenada and Venezuela

by George W. Colton, engraver John M. Atwood, engraver

$9,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

New York: J. H. Colton, No. 86 Cedar St., 1849 copyrighted 1848 . Hand-colored steel engraving, 33.5” x 42.5” plus margins, on two joined sheets, segmented and mounted linen. CONDITION: Very good, minor foxing. A highly decorative and “of-the-moment” Colton map of the United States, reflecting the vast territorial acquisitions of the late 1840s and the early months of the California Gold

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