[MAP] Johnson's New England (c. 1860)

[MAP] Johnson's New England. New York: Johnson & Browning, c. 1860. [10372] Large double-plate hand-colored map, 46 x 67.5 cm (18 x 26 3/4 inches), clean, suitable for framing. Will ship folded at center, as found. There is a short 1 inch tear at the fold, in the margin. Removed from a bound volume, Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas. Very good. This gorgeous map show railroads, canals, common roads, cities and towns. Inset illustrations of the Niagara Suspension Bridge, Observatory at Yale College, Observatory at Cambridge, Observatory at Amherst College, and Mansfield the Homestead and Farm of the late Daniel Webster. 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) evidentl