Donald Heald Original Antique Books Prints and Maps

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Carta General para las Navegaciones á la India Oriental por el Mar del Sur y el grande Oceano que separa el Continente Americano del Asiatico, construida segun las derrolas, Observaciones y trabajos de los mas Celebres Naviganles [sic.] Españoles y Publicada por Orden del Exmo Sr D. Guadalupe Victoria primer Presidente de la Republica Mexico

[Mexico City]: 1825. Copper-engraved map, in very good condition. Sheet size: 25 1/4 x 30 5/16 inches.

A sheet from a rare map of the Pacific and the Pacific coast of North and Central America.

This fine map concentrates largely on the west coast of America: from Panama in the south to 'Alaska' in the north. It is a single sheet from a four or six sheet map that covered the whole of the Pacific and includes the Mexican Federal Seal in the lower left corner. It is a copy of one of a series of maps prepared by the Spanish Hydrographical Department in Madrid, although this particular map may derive from a six-sheet map 'Carta general para las navegaciones... constuida por Dn. Jose de Espinosa [y Tello]', but published in London in 1812-1813 [see Tooley 555]. There is anecdotal evidence that this map was prepared as part of a group of charts presented by the King of Spain to the President of Mexico to mark its independence, and according to a Mexican bookdealer that Warren Howell spoke to in the 1950s this series of maps was actually printed by Aaron Arrowsmith in London. The present example is printed on wove paper with no watermark.

Cf. Lowery Collection, a Descriptive List of Maps of the Spanish Possessions Within the Present Limits of the United States, 1502-1820 Washington: 1912

#8204

$2,250.00