Antique Map of Mexico, with Valley of Mexico Inset, Rand McNally, 1899

Name: Antique Map of Mexico, with Valley of Mexico Inset, Rand McNally, 1899
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12793-2-85
Price: 440 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1899
Maker: Rand McNally
Kind: Maps
Technique: Lithograph
Color: Printed color
Size: 52 × 69 cm (20.5 × 27.2 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition for its age. Light age toning, a faint pencil note beside the scale and the original central fold as issued. Please review the images for further condition details.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Mexico
Reference: BG-12793-2-85

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

The Republic of Mexico, an original color lithograph by Rand, McNally & Co. of Chicago, printed in 1899 as a double-page spread on pages 394 and 395 of the firm's indexed atlas. The outline is printed in black with the colors printed over it, and the sheet is headed "Rand, McNally & Co's Mexico."

The map runs from the Sonora and Arizona border to the Yucatan Peninsula and the Gulf of Campeachy, with Baja California and the Pacific coast at left and the southern United States, left largely uncolored, across the top. A dense red railroad network is keyed by number to a legend of some two dozen companies headed "Mexico, Railroads," including the Mexican Central, the Mexican National, the Mexican International and the Interoceanic, with a separate category for lines then only proposed. An inset at lower left, "Map of the Valley of Mexico on Enlarged Scale," shows the capital, the lake basin and the lines converging on Mexico City. The Sierra Madre ranges are drawn in hachured relief and the states are outlined in red.

The railroad building of the Porfirio Diaz years, much of it financed by American and British capital, is the real subject of the sheet, and the atlas records the network at a level of detail few general maps of the period attempted.

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