1874 Large Map of North America Oddities!

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1874 Large Map of North and Central America
"Amérique Septentrionale"

Color, Double Folio
Shows Nonexistent Islands in the Pacific

This original steel etching, probably by Ch. Dyonnet after the drawing by Th. Duvotenay, originally appeared as text illustration in M.A. Thiers's "Histoire de la Revolution Francaise" (Paris, Furne et Cie 1846). The map was reprinted for "Atlas Geographie Militaire", Adopte Par. M. Le Ministre De La Guerre Pour L'Ecole Speciale Militaire De Saint-Cyr, by Colonel Edmond Bureau. Printed in Paris by Furne, the publisher Thier's atlas, Jouvet et Cie, Libraires-Éditeurs, 45 Rue Saint-André-des-Arts, MDCCCLXXIV (1874). Bureau was a professor of history, geography, and military statistics at the military academy at Saint-Cyr. Bureau's atlas was a revision of the similar atlas by Theophile Lavallee. Both atlased used the original plates engraved by Dyonnet.

This fascinating authentic double folio map of North America (the United States, British America, Russian America, Greenland, Mexico, Central America, and West Indies) shows major rejons, provinces, states, cities, rivers, lakes, mountain chains, and Indian tribes. Below given are some interesting details related to the map's content.

• Large Oregon extends all the way to the Rocky Mountains
• Huge California covers the present-day Nevada and part of Arizona.
• New Mexico covers present-day Arizona.
• The southern border of the United States incorrectly ends on the Gila River. After the Mexican War, Arizona was ceded to the United States as part of New Mexico in 1848, and the Gadsden Purchase, an area south of the Gila River, was added in 1853.
• Salt Lake City is named "Mormonfort."
• The western border of Texas differs from the present one.
• Florida's interior is unexplored. Lake Okeechobee is named "Lake Macaco"
• Canada is named "Nouvelle Bretagne"
• Alaska is named Amérique Russe (Russian America).
• The map shows nonexistent Maria Laxara - a mythical uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean between California and the Hawaiian Islands, as well as "Copper", "Henderson", "Mew", "Groupe Americain", and "Cloud" in the Pacific.
• Since the 1520s, the Central American states of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, along with the Mexican state of Chiapas, had composed the captaincy general of Guatemala, part of the viceroyalty of New Spain (Mexico). In 1821 they became independent from Spain. The map still shows them as "Guatemala."
• The Mosquito Coast, named "Mosquitos" is depicted. The Mosquito Coast is a coastal region of Nicaragua and Honduras. In the early colonial period, English and Dutch buccaneers preyed on Spanish shipping from there, and English loggers exploited the forest. England established a protective kingdom at Bluefields in 1678. Slaves from Jamaica were brought in to increase the labor supply. In 1848, the British took San Juan del Norte to offset U.S. interest in a transisthmian route to California. Nicaragua protested the seizure. The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850) between the United States and Great Britain checked British expansion, but relinquishment of the coast was delayed until a separate treaty was concluded with Nicaragua (1860), which established the autonomy of the so-called Mosquito Kingdom.

Engraving measures 13 1/4" x 16 1/2" on 16 3/4" x 20 1/2" sheet. Printed on strong quality paper. Wide margins. One centerfold-as issued. The map is in very good condition. Imperfections: age toning; several tiny dark spots. Will look great with a mat and frame.

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