This is A. J. Johnson and Ward’s 1862 map of Central America.  Covers Central America from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico to the Bay of Panama.  Shows the countries of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.  Jamaica appears in the upper right corner. Shows proposed roadways, cities, rivers, and ferry crossings. The lower left hand quadrant features three inset maps.  In a clockwise fashion from top left these detail the Isthmus of Panama, the Nicaragua Route to the Pacific, and the Harbor of San Juan de Nicaragua.  Two additional insets on the right hand side of the map show Aspinwall City and the City of Panama. Features the strapwork border common to Johnson’s atlas work from 1860 to 1863.  Based on a similar 1855 map by J. H. Colton. Steel plate engraving prepared by A. J. Johnson for publication as page no. 61 in the 1862 edition of his  New Illustrated Atlas…   This is the first edition of the Johnson’s  Atlas  to bear the Johnson and Ward imprint.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Alvin_J._Johnson" class="extiw" title="w:en:Alvin J. Johnson"><span title="19th century United-States cartographer">Alvin Jewett Johnson</span></a>
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1862 (undated)
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