COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Wyld, James, 1812-1887
Date:
1846
Short Title:
(North Sheet) Mexico The British Possessions In North America And The United States.
Publisher:
James Wyld
Publisher Location:
London
Type:
Case Map
Obj Height cm:
65
Obj Width cm:
139
Scale 1:
4,200,000
Note:
Dissected in north and south sheets, each in 30 sections. This map is a reduction and reissue of Wyld's famous 1824 Map of North America (Stevens and Tree 63 - four editions from 1824 to 1856) - it does not have the top sheet showing the Arctic, it moves the title from the lower left to middle right (and changes title of course), and it updates some of the western geography, showing the Tule Lakes in California, Fremont's or South Pass, Fts Hall and Boise and the Oregon Trail. However, it keeps the outdated topography of the Great Basin and California used in the 1824 edition - the two large rivers running from the interior of the basin to the Pacific, and the mountain ranges running almost east to west instead of north to south in the basin. Nonetheless, it is a very beautiful map in the best of Wyld's cartographic style. Two insets in the lower right and left, of North America and Islands in the Pacific Ocean (both of which appear in the small General Atlas). Map comes from the family of Kit Carson's clerk. Has paste down catalogue. Wheat 658 (1849) is listed in our copy of Radford's Catalogue, 1975. Though smaller, it is likely derived from this map. With outline color. Sheets fold with marbled end sheets into original brown cloth slip case 25x15.5 with label reading "Canada Mexico &c. United States" (ms) and "James Wyld, Geographer To Her Majesty. Charing Cross, East ..."
Reference:
cf Wheat 366(1825) & 658(1849).
World Area:
North America
Country:
Mexico
Country:
United States
Full Title:
(North Sheet) Mexico The British Possessions In North America And The United States. London. Published By Jas. Wyld, Geographer To The Queen, Charing Cross East. 1846. James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen and to H.R.H. Prince Albert, Charing Cross, East, four doors from Trafalgar Square, London ... (inset) North America. (inset) Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
List No:
2747.002
Series No:
2
Publication Author:
Wyld, James, 1812-1887
Pub Date:
1846
Pub Title:
Mexico The British Possessions In North America And The United States. London. Published By Jas. Wyld, Geographer To The Queen, Charing Cross East. 1846. James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen and to H.R.H. Prince Albert, Charing Cross, East, four doors from Trafalgar Square, London ... (inset) North America. (inset) Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Pub List No:
2747.000
Pub Type:
Case Map
Pub Height cm:
130
Pub Width cm:
139
Image No:
2747002
Authors:
Wyld, James, 1812-1887
Link To Source
(North Sheet) Mexico The British Possessions In North America And The United States.
