Subject: Southern United States, Mexico & Central America
Period: 1787 (circa)
Publication: Atlas Encyclopedique
Color: Hand Color
Size:
9.3 x 13.6 inches
23.6 x 34.5 cm
This handsome pair of maps covers the southern United States, Mexico, and Central America. Partie Occidental covers the region of present day southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Mexico. Excellent detail, particularly of the Jesuit missions in Mexico and the Southwest, and of the numerous Indian tribes. The map locates San Diego, Santa Fe, Taos, Acapulco, Cabo St. Lucas and many towns along the Sea of Cortez and Baja Peninsula. Partie Orientale covers the Gulf of Mexico and Central America through Panama and includes most of Cuba and the Bahamas. It provides a good amount of detail along the Gulf coast, including the Mississippi to above its conjunction with the Ohio.
References: Phillips (Atlases) #666, Vol. 2 #115 & 116.
Condition:
Nice impressions on watermarked paper. The western sheet has light toning with a few spots of foxing in the image (B+). The eastern sheet is clean and bright with a few spots of foxing confined to the blank margins (A).