Austria by G.W. Colton

Code: 53559

Date: 1871

Steel engraved  map with original hand colouring. Overall sheet size: 43.3cms x 35.6cms ; image size : 401mm x 331mm.  Text on verso describing The Austrian Empire - No II.   Highly detailed map with an inset of the Vicinity of Vienna.  Covers Austria, Hungary, Bohemia (the Czech Republic) , Romania, Transylvania, and parts of Italy including Lombardy and Venice. Slight browning to margin's edge  else very good condition.
 
George Woolworth Colton (1827 - 1901) was the son of Joseph Hutchins Colton (July 5, 1800 - July 29, 1893) who was an important American map and atlas publisher operating between 1833 to 1897. JH Colton recognized a gap in the market and published guides for immigrants and updated maps with decorative borders after purchasing the copyright from cartographers such as David H. Burr. His two sons worked in the business with him on the vast output of railroad maps, guides and several atlases.  The non payment of the fee from Bolivia for a large quantity of maps of the country was financially disastrous for the company.  The maps are characterised by their decorative spiral borders and  vibrant contemporary hand colouring.