1855 Colton Map of New York City, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Hoboken (first edition) - Geographicus - NewYorkCity-colton-1855

A rare and beautiful example of J. H. Colton's map of New York City and vicinity, including Manhattan as well as parts of Brooklyn, Jersey City, Hoboken, and Queens. This is the first edition, first state, of the Colton New York City atlas map in which Olmstead’s Central Park is completely absent. This important map would become the template from which Johnson and late later S. A. Mitchell Jr. would build their own New York City maps. Beautiful hand color according to city ward. Wonderful attention to detail includes individual streets and even important buildings and parks. Originally prepared as plates no 17 and 18 in J. H. Colton’s 1856 single volume issue of the Atlas of the World… . Dated and copyrighted: “Entered according to the Act of Congress in the Year of 1855 by J. H. Colton & Co. in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.” Published from Colton’s 172 William Str. Office in New York.