Title: New Map of that Portion of North America, Exhibiting the United States and Territories, the Canadas, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Mexico, also Central America, and the West India Islands Author: Monk, Jacob Place: Baltimore Publisher: Jacob Monk Date: 1853 Description: Engraved map, hand-colored. 131x139.5 cm (51½x55") plus decorative border, backed with linen, on rollers. Large wall map of the Unites States and Central America, with inset of the world on Mercator's projection, and many sailing ships on the oceans. The western U.S. is in flux - New Mexico encompasses present Arizona and some of Nevada, with the remainder of Nevada a part of Utah, which also claims much of Colorado; the rest of Colorado, as also Kansas and part of Wyoming, is part of "Territory of Nebraska as Proposed," to the north is an oversized Minnesota, and an unnamed Montana peopled by various tribes of Indians. Oregon and Washington each stretch east across present Idaho into Montana. The border with Mexico is in pre-Gadsden state. Lot Amendments Condition: Some rubbing to the map surface, light staining at top, still in very good condition, an attractive example. Item number: 156087
Title: New Map of that Portion of North America, Exhibiting the United States and Territories, the Canadas, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Mexico, also Central America, and the West India Islands Author: Monk, Jacob Place: Baltimore Publisher: Jacob Monk Date: 1853 Description: Engraved map, hand-colored. 131x139.5 cm (51½x55") plus decorative border, backed with linen, on rollers. Large wall map of the Unites States and Central America, with inset of the world on Mercator's projection, and many sailing ships on the oceans. The western U.S. is in flux - New Mexico encompasses present Arizona and some of Nevada, with the remainder of Nevada a part of Utah, which also claims much of Colorado; the rest of Colorado, as also Kansas and part of Wyoming, is part of "Territory of Nebraska as Proposed," to the north is an oversized Minnesota, and an unnamed Montana peopled by various tribes of Indians. Oregon and Washington each stretch east across present Idaho into Montana. The border with Mexico is in pre-Gadsden state. Lot Amendments Condition: Some rubbing to the map surface, light staining at top, still in very good condition, an attractive example. Item number: 156087
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