Mathew Carey (1760-1839). Mexico or New Spain. (Philadelphia: 1816). Published in Carey’s General Atlas, Improved and Enlarged. Copperplate engraving with original outline hand color. 17 x 15 in. to neat line. Inset of Central America. Nice impression. Minor foxing and minor discoloration at centerfold. Overall, very good condition.
$975.00
Scarce 1816 edition of one of the earliest maps of Mexico (including Texas and New Mexico) published in America, which first appeared in the 1814 edition of Carey’s Atlas.
Carey’s maps reflect the information from Alexander von Humboldt’s seminal map of Mexico, but pre-dates Pike. Extends north to show Lake Timpanagos and covers most of Colorado and New Mexico, as well as providing details in Texas, including the naming of Bejax, Cibola, Provincia, S Josef, Nuestra Sra del Rosario, Galveston Bay and the name Texas. The detail along the Rio Grande and in Southern Arizona is also excellent. This is the first regional map of the Southwest and Mexico to be published in an American atlas.
Mathew Carey is generally considered the founder of serious map-making in the United States. A native of Dublin, Carey arrived in Philadelphia in 1784, and in the following year, he set up a print shop and publishing house. After 1792, he expanded his primary focus on general popular reading material to include maps and atlases.
The present is a very attractive pre-republic map of Mexico by the first American publisher to issue cartographic works.
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