Johnson’s Mexico Map with Tehuantepec Inset, USA c.1864 – Hand-Colored

Name: Johnson’s Mexico Map with Tehuantepec Inset, USA c.1864 – Hand-Colored
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13952-42
Price: 370 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1864
Kind: Maps
Size: 35.7 × 45.7 cm (14.1 × 18 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition. Strong impression with bright original hand coloring. Light general age toning and a few minor spots or handling marks in margins, typical for antique atlas maps. No tears or repairs visible. Wide margins and plate mark intact.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Mexico
Reference: BG-13952-42

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

Mexico as drawn by an American atlas publisher, "Johnson's Mexico by Johnson and Ward," a hand-colored steel-engraved map published in New York around 1864. The title is lettered at the lower center of the sheet within the publisher's ornamental border, with a scale of miles beneath it.

The Mexican states are tinted in pink and green, with the long peninsula of Baja California at the left and the Yucatan at the right, and the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific shown in plain paper. At the top, the map takes in Texas, New Mexico and the Indian Territory beyond the border. Towns, rivers and mountains are drawn throughout, and the state names, such as Durango, San Luis Potosi and Michoacan, are lettered in large type. An inset at the lower left shows the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a route then proposed for a railroad or canal across the narrowest part of Mexico.

The date falls in the years of the French intervention in Mexico, and the border of Mexico is shown as it was after the cession of territory to the United States in 1848 and 1853.

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