Colton’s Traveler and Tourist’s Guide-Book Through the Western States and Territories, Containing Brief Descriptions of Each, With the Routes and Distances on the Great Lines of Travel. Compiled by Richard S. Fisher, M.D. … Accompanied by a Map, Exhibiting the Township Lines of the U.S. Surveys, the Boundaries of Counties, Position of Cities, Villages, Settlements, etc.

New York: J. H. Colton and Company, 1857, 16mo, xii, [13] – 149, 37 pp., catalog of Colton's publications, large folding colored map, measuring 53.5 x 72 cm, entitled: Guide Through Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska & Kansas. Showing the Township lines of the United States Surveys, Locations of Cities, Towns, Villages, Post Hamlets, Canals, Rail and Stage Roads. By J. Calvin Smith. Published by J. H. Colton & Co., 1857, bound in original red cloth, binding somewhat worn, head of spine chipped with loss, contemporary ownership signatures, former owner's bookplate, map is in good condition with some separations at fold joints, right hand edge of map slightly ruffled, else very good.
The detailed map shows the territory from the extreme western edge of Pennsylvania across the mid-west to Kansas, portions of Nebraska and Minnesota Territory. (Inventory #: 31133)