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Mexico, California and Texas

Description: The newly discovered gold districts coloured yellow. "This map drawn & engraved by J. Rapkin." "The Illustrations by H. Warren, & Engraved by J. Rogers." "70" (upper right). Vignettes: Gold Washing; Mexican Peasantry; Ruins at Uxmal, Yucatan. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Conic Printing Process: Lithography. Other Features: Vignettes.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [185-?]
Call number: 150211
Creator: Rapkin, J(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 22 x 30 cm
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New and Accurate Map of Mexico or New Spain together with California New Mexico &c. Drawn from the best Modern Maps & Charts & Regulated by Astronl. Observns. by Eman. Bowen. No. 110 lower left

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Kashnor notes, "Contains the following note, 'California, which has been Described and Represented as an island, even by very modern Geographers, was discovered by Father Eusebius Francis Kino, a Jesuit, to be a peninsula between the years 1698 and 1701." Cartouche cut "shewing a Spaniard ill-treating two Indians." Submap of Gallapagos Islands. Submap: The Gallapagos Islands Discovered & Described by Capt. Cowley in 1684.. Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Conic. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS notes: Cat. 105 253.

105:253 M

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North America, Sheet XV Utah, New Mexico, Texas, California, &c. and the Northern States of Mexico

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Kashnor notes, "A good map, showing the development of California in a few years. Shows the old track from Los Angeles to Santa Fe, and from thence to Independence across the prairies. North of the Californian boundary is shown the Oregon route from Independence to South Pass." Arizona and Nevada do not exist, the Gold Region is well described. MS note: 280 (on backing). Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues. Projection: Conic. Printing Process: Engraving, etching. References: Wheat v.3 No. 777.

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Arabia

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Not in Alai. "The Map drawn and Engraved by J. Rapkin." "The Illustrations by H. Warren & Engraved by J. Rogers." Vignettes: Arab figures; camel; Mt. Sinai. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Steel engraving.

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North America

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Kashnor notes, "Locates San Francisco, Monterey, Santa Barbara, and New Helvetia, shows the Oregon boundary, and east of the Rockies is called Missouri Territory." Nine scenes or vignettes around the outside of map image. Kashnor dates as ca. 1846. RLIN record suggests 1850 date. Nine hand colored figures and scenes by J. Marchant, engraved by J. Rogers: Cossacks, Esquimaux, Mount Hecla, Wapiti Deer, Beavers, North American Indians, Falls of Niagara, Ancient Mexican Monument and a Convoy of Diamonds. Elaborate Victorian border. MS note: 274 (on backing).. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Conic. Printing Process: Engraving. Other Features: Figures Art Work. Verso Text: MS note: 274.

105:274 S

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Map of the United States and Mexico, including Oregon, Texas and the Californias

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California includes Nevada and Utah, Oregon stretches to 54°40', New Mexico is shown as part of Mexico. Vignettes: Brother Jonathan exhibiting to the Crowned heads of Europe ; State seals of 30 states. Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography.

288783

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Johnson's California Territories of New Mexico and Utah / by Johnson and Ward

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Includes Gadsden Purchase, but Arizona and New Mexico are shown horizontally split across the territory as the south hoped would be set. Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Conic. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes; 167 1.50 244958.

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