Mitchell, S. Augustus. A New Map of Texas Oregon and California. Philadelphia, 1846.

Mitchell, S. Augustus. A New Map of Texas Oregon and California. Philadelphia, 1846.S. Augustus A New Map of Texas Oregon and California Philadelphia, 1846 22 x 21 inches Nice example of Mitchell's seminal map of Texas, Oregon, Upper California, Missouri Territory and a massive Indian Territory (covering most of Kansas and Colorado). The region covered by the map was of particular interest in 1846 because of two recent and related events. In 1845, Texas was admitted into the Union, which prompted Mexico to invade Texas in 1846, thus

The map also includes Latin inscriptions

we handled the purchase and sale of an edition dated 1862

The birds'-eye view looks across the blue horseshoe bend of the Mississippi River to the brick-red buildings of the city to the north

Geological Survey into the region that

1839 - 1840

The Grand Canyon of Arizona

and the voyages of Americus Vespuccius and others by Peter Apian of Leissig

the three maps show the most significant parts of the New World in the last decades of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth century

Capitaine pour le Roy en la Marinedu Ponant

With the rest of Maximilian’s company

35 1/4 x 75 inches

" Cohen & Augustyn state that the Ratzer Map is perhaps the finest for an American city produced in the eighteenth century