New Map State Texas Compiled (3 results)

Double-page hand-colored map from Colton's General Atlas. Very good condition with two small facing stains near center fold in Kinney and Uvalde counties. 3 uncolored inset maps, of Northern Texas, Galveston Bay and Sabine Lake. Full color by county. Straight line border. This is not the earliest state of this double-page map which replaced a single-page map which had appeared in the first edition of Colton's Atlas in 1855. Jack County appears here, having been carved out of a much larger Cooke County, and other small changes are evident from the previous state. Though this state is not dated, It is certainly pre-1859 at which time the publication credit on this map changes to Johnson & Browning.…

Condition: Good. Map. Hand-colored double-page map; with inset plans of Galveston Bay, Sabine Lake and the Northern Part of Texas. Separate sheet with the State of Texas demographic details. Jacob Raphael De Cordova (1808-1868) Texas land agent and colonizer, with a background in printing, whose business interests required accurate mapping: "traveled extensively through Texas, including the frontier western areas. Through scrip and direct purchase he acquired large amounts of land to sell to settlers; at one time he had a million acres in scrip or title De Cordova and Robert Creuzbaur compiled the Map of the State of Texas, first published in 1849. Much subsequent Texas cartography was based on this map (as this Colton version) and praised by Sam Houston on the floor of the United States Senate" Approx. 18 1/2" x 29" overall size; Some edge-toning to the paper; bottom margin chipped away 1/2" x 4" no loss to decorative bordering. In good condition. Note: Shipped rolled for safety. Map printed for use in Colton's uncommon Advertising Atlas of America 1857. American companies used this atlas as a vehicle to promote their businesses. The atlas made use of the same maps used in the 1855 printing, with many of them having that imprint date. Richard Swainson Fisher authored the accompanying geographical, statistical and historical descriptions.…

The very important 1846 Mitchell map of Texas and the American West, here included as frontispiece to his General View of the United States, published the same year. Samuel Augustus Michell was one of the most influential map publishers in America in the 19th century, also producing numerous travel guides and statistical compilations to accompany them. The map present here is one of his most significant, representing "a great step forward, in that it is among the first by a commercial cartographer to utilize the recent explorations that had bounded and determined the nature of the Great Basin.because of its popularity, this map of the West exerted great influence, not only with the public but on other commercial cartographers" (Wheat). Published in 1846, this highly detailed "New Map of Texas, Oregon and California with the Regions Adjoining" would have been of immediate value to the public, who were focused with intense interest on the war breaking out on the Texas-Mexico border. It depicts the western portion of the United States to the Pacific, with Indian Territory, Missouri Territory, Iowa, and portions of the states of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Wisconsin, as well as northern Mexico and part of British Columbia, illustrating in detail the trans-Mississippi region. The Santa Fe Trail and the Oregon Trail are both detailed, the latter with a table of distances published in the lower corner of the map. It is also deeply reflective of America's most aggressive land claims: Texas is elaborately depicted with the Rio Grande as its southern border, and Oregon is shown extended to 54deg 40". As one of if not the best commercial Western maps available, it played a part in some of the largest developments in the country at the time: Brigham Young, for example, ordered six copies before setting out for Utah that winter. The map was originally published with a short pamphlet very similar to the book offered here; it describes each territory or state in turn, with notes on Lewis and Clark and other early explorers, and more historical material. The General View of the United States which accompanies this copy provides detailed statistics, tables, and charts for every state in the Union as of 1840, including population, institutions of higher education, and details of mining and natural resources. The section on "Western States and Territories" prints much of the same information as the original accompaniment, including notes on Lewis and Clark, Pike, and Long, and additional details which Wheat calls "perhaps the clearest statement of Oregon and California facts that came out of the period just prior to the settlement of the former's boundaries and the inclusion of the latter in the United States." A valuable and historically important map, and highly illustrative of the explosive territorial expansion and concomitant conflicts of the 19th century. Map: HOWES M685, "aa." SABIN 49714. MARTIN & MARTIN 36. WAGNER-CAMP 122b. COWAN, p.433. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 520. STREETER SALE 2511. PHILLIPS, MAPS, p.844. WHEAT GOLD REGIONS 29. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 91. GRAFF 2841. Text: SABIN 49716. Original half cloth and printed paper boards. Boards a bit stained and soiled, extremities worn, neat cloth repairs to rear joint. Map: Light tanning and foxing, top edge slightly ragged, not touching image, two closed tears near where map is attached to gutter, repaired with paper on verso. Text tanned and foxed, a handful of early pencil annotations throughout and ownership inscription in ink on final page. A very good copy of the map, the text about the same.…