[MAP] Johnson's New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Island

[MAP] Johnson's New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Id. New York: Johnson and Browning, c. 1861. [10400] Large hand-colored map, 45.7 x 36 cm (18 x 14 inches), clean, suitable for framing. Removed from a bound volume, Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas. Very good.  This map shows roads, rivers, provinces and regions. The Johnson and Browning imprint dates this map between 1860 and 1862.  Alvin Jewett Johnson (1827-1884), b. Wallingford, Vermont; school teacher, for some years a book and map seller for J. H. Colton and Co. After some efforts at publishing his own maps, Johnson found success with his Family Atlas, publishing them in Richmond, Virginia and in New York City beginning in 1860. He and his partner Ross C. Browning (1822-1899) evidently purchased rights to Colton's maps, as they appear in the first Johnson's Family Atlas. Johnson updated his maps as cartography became more accurate, and Atlases during the 1860's were bound with maps bearing various