Catalog Archive
Auction 127, Lot 356

"Mexico", Hall, Sidney

Subject: United States, Texas & Mexico

Period: 1840 (circa)

Publication: Black's General Atlas

Color: Hand Color

Size:
14.5 x 10 inches
36.8 x 25.4 cm
Download High Resolution Image
(or just click on image to launch the Zoom viewer)

This map covers the present-day Southwestern United States, the Independent Republic of Texas, and Mexico. The map continues into Central America in the inset titled Guatimala. Texas is shown with a stove-pipe panhandle. In Upper or New California, there is an American Fur Company Depot on the eastern shore of L. Youta or Salt L. In New Mexico, the Great Spanish Road is shown from the Red River in Texas to Santa Fe, and then heading south through the length of Mexico. In Mexico all states are delineated and named.

References:

Condition: A

Pleasantly toned with original pastel coloring.

Estimate: $200 - $250

Sold for: $275

Closed on 2/25/2009

Archived