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Good. Moderate foxing. Size 3.5 x 5.5 Inches. A masterwork of small-scale engraving, this is J. H. Young's 1832 map of Mexico and Central America, which appeared in Henry Carey and Isaac Lea's Family Cabinet Atlas . It depicts the region in the wake of the collapse of Spain's American empire and on the eve of the westward expansion of the United States of America. A Closer Look Coverage extends from the Pacific Northwest, here as 'New Albion,' south through Panama and east to Haiti. Copious detail is provided on the geography of Mexico and Central America, including the labeling of individual provinces of the United Mexican States, all the more impressive given the map's small scale. Some common cartographic errors of the era, such as the Buenaventura River, are retained. Similarly, 'West Florida' is anachronistically maintained. Texas appears as a province of Mexico. At this time, the Mexican government encouraged immigration to Texas despite its inability to prevent conflict with Native Americans, disputes over several issues including slavery, and a failed secession movement in 1826 - 1827. These lingering problems would come to the fore a few years later with the outbreak of the Texas Revolution. 'Guatimala' retains the borders of the defunct Spanish Captaincy General of Guatemala, but a more accurate reflection of the political situation is demonstrated with the numeric labels. Still, uncertainty remained over borders, particularly around Belize ('Bazlie' here), resulting in Belize (City) being located in Mexico, outside of Belize itself. Publication History and Census This map appeared as Plate 90 in the 1832 (first) edition of Henry Carey and Isaac Lea's 1832 Family Cabinet Atlas . Young had engraved maps of this region as far back as 1825, in Grigg's American Atlas , which may explain some of the anachronisms noted above. The present map is not cataloged in the holdings of any institution in the OCLC and is scarce to the market, while the entire atlas (OCLC 276123103, 276123103) is quite rare, only appearing in four institutional collections.
Seller Inventory # MexicoGuatimala-young-1832
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