[MAP] Johnson's Lower Canada and New Brunswick with Johnson's Upper Canada

[MAP] Johnson's Lower Canada and New Brunswick with Johnson's Upper Canada. New York: Johnson & Browning, c. 1860. [10371] Large double-plate hand-colored maps, 46 x 67.5 cm (18 x 26 3/4 inches), clean, suitable for framing. Two maps on one folded plate.  Will ship folded at center, as found. Removed from a bound volume, Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas. Very good. Engraving. Two wonderful hand-colored maps, Upper and Lower Canada, as it was in the 1860's. These maps show railroads, canals, common roads, cities and towns. The Lower Canada map has an inset of Montreal; the Upper Canada map has insets of Wolf Island and of the Vicinity of Welland Canal & Niagara Falls. 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