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A flawless example of this highly detailed map of the area west of Lake Champlain & the Hudson, from Ft. Edward in the Southeast to Plattsburg in the Northeast to DeKalb in the Northwest to Trenton Falls in the Southwest. An absolutely flawless copy, inside and out. Folds into brown cloth 12mo covers, with title in gilt.
G. W. & C. B. Colton was a prominent family firm of mapmakers who were leaders in the American map trade in the nineteenth century. The business was founded by Joseph Hutchins Colton (1800-1893) who bought copyrights to existing maps and oversaw their production. By the 1850s, their output had expanded to include original maps, guidebooks, atlases, and railroad maps. Joseph was succeeded by his sons, George Woolworth (1827-1901) and Charles B. Colton (1831-1916). The firm was renamed G. W. & C. B. Colton as a result. George is thought responsible for their best-known work, the General Atlas, originally published under that title in 1857. In 1898, the brothers merged their business and the firm became Colton, Ohman, & Co., which operated until 1901, when August R. Ohman took on the business alone and dropped the Colton name.