The southern portion of the nascent Republic of Texas is shown here in its final year as an independent republic before being annexed into the United States. The map also marks the Mosquito Cays and the Mosquito Coast, which is a corruption of the Moskito, its indigenous tribal inhabitants.
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The Amazon River and its basin dominate the northern portion of the map, with the Paraguay River and the Rio de la Plata acting as the focal point in the southern half of the continent. This map was created and engraved by Franz Pluth in 1820.
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The map identifies the island of Guanahani or San Salvador in the Bahamas as the site where Columbus supposedly landed on October 12 of 1492. Issued as page 59 in the 1879 edition of Warren'sCommon-School Geography.
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In essence a nautical chart, this map has little inland detail and is crisscrossed with both rumb lines and lines of latitude and longitude. Southern Florida is rendered as an archipelago in a primitive attempt to describe the everglades.
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Per the map, these five species each have rather specific ranges. The giant sequoia, for example, can only be found on the western side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. This map was prepared under the direction of Charles Sprague Sargent, drafted by Harry King, and compiled under the direction of Henry Garrett.
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It includes all of the West Indies including the Caribbean and the Greater and Lesser Antilles. This map is magnificent in size, beautiful in color, and high in detail. Issued for the 1817 edition ofThomson's New General Atlas.
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The title states that the purpose of the map is to illustrate the distribution of Genera Chamæcyparis and Cupressus trees, each of which is a genus of cypress. A legend along the left border explains that the seven different colors present on the map indicate that seven different species of cypress tree inhabit the United States and Canada.
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13" x 10". Overall good condition.
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