Osborne Co., Kansas. (with) Osborne ... (with) Bethany, known as Portis ... L.H. Everts & Co., publishers, Phila., Pa. (1887)

Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com. This image 2818.386 is a part of image group 2818.000. Hand col. lithographed map with 2 insets. Shows townships, sections, quarter sections, rural structures, etc. " ... prepared by Alva H. Pearson ..." Includes certification dated 1886. Insets at (1:7,200) scale show block and lot numbers, etc.; Osborne shows owners of large parcels; Bethany shows wards. Huge atlas, many maps and views, scarce. With 340 numbered pages (plus many unnumbered pages) of maps and views this must be the largest State Atlas published (Andreas' Iowa has 250 pages of maps and views). The views show the remarkable development of the state over two decades after the Civil War. Many large folding maps of cities are included. Bound in new burgandy cloth covered boards with "The Official Atlas Of Kansas 1887" stamped in gilt. Maps hand painted in full color. Checklist of printed maps of the Middle West to 1900, 13-1798; Phillips, 1710; Ristow. American maps and mapmakers, p. 441; LeGear. Atlases of the United States, LC 1368.