"A Map of Exploration in the Spanish Southwest 1528-1793", Automobile Club of Southern California
Subject: Southwestern United States & Mexico
Period: 1932 (dated)
Publication: Supplement to Touring Topics, Volume Twenty-Four, Number One
Color: Printed Color
Size:
33 x 22.1 inches
83.8 x 56.1 cm
This decorative historical map of the southwestern United States & Mexico was compiled by Joseph Hill and illustrated by Dillon Lauritzen. It was issued as a supplement to Touring Topics, a monthly magazine focused on automobile tourism. The colorful map is filled with the tracks of 30 Spanish explorations from De Vaca and Coronado to Vial, Mares and Fragoso with a key at lower left. Illustrations include Indians, buffaloes, bear, coyotes, pictorial topography, and more. Explorer portraits surround the map with accompanying descriptive text. On a full sheet with English text measuring 42.3 x 28.2".
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Condition: A
A colorful example on a clean sheet with some tiny chips and edge tears confined to the sheet's blank margins.