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Auction 143, Lot 291

"Map of Texas from the Most Recent Authorities", Williams, C. S.

Subject: Texas

Period: 1847 (dated)

Publication: New Universal Atlas

Color: Hand Color

Size:
14.5 x 12 inches
36.8 x 30.5 cm
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This is a very early map of the new state of Texas published by C.S. Williams. It portrays early counties, towns, and villages and shows "Texas North of the Red River" in an inset at lower left. This panhandle extends north to the Green Mts., just west of Pikes or James Peak in present-day Colorado, and west to the Rio Grande River, thus incorporating Santa Fe and Taos. There is a comment taken from Arrowsmith's 1841 map in West Texas that the area "as far as North Canadian Fork was explored by Le Grand in 1833, [and] it is naturally fertile, well wooded, and with a fair proportion of water." San Patricio County occupies the south tip, while Bexar, Milam and Robertson counties take up the majority of the western region. Several early roads are depicted including the Presido Road, and Fort Alamo, mines, and the Presidios of Rio Grande, del Norte el de las Yuntas, del Paso del Norte are identified.

References: cf Day (TX) #108.

Condition: B+

Attractive original color with a few minor spots and toning along the edges of the sheet.

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,300

Sold for: $750

Closed on 2/13/2013

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