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Title: Nouvelle Carte du Mexique, Et D'une Partie des Provinces Unies De L'Amerique Centrale, Dediée á l'Acadamie Royale des Sciences de l'Institute de France Author: Brué, Adrien Hubert Place: Paris Publisher: Chez Ch. Picquet Date: 1834 Description: Engraved map, hand-colored in outline, with color code. Two large insets. 93x62.5 cm (36½x24½"). A handsome and well-engraved map, of great importance for providing the first cartographic representation of Jedediah Smith's journey to California and return in 1826. In addition, Texas is shown as province. This is the second issue of the first edition of the map, with blindstamp of Ch. Picquet, dated 1835. This state is not noted in bibliographies. Carl Wheat, in Mapping the Transmississippi West, describes the map at length, "In fact, a most important map of 1834 - historically speaking - was that of A.H. Brué, also published posthumously by his widow. It was a map of Mexico, beautifully engraved, as were all the maps of this cartographer. It... carries many of the legends of the 1833 Brué map. On this map, however, a line has been added from the Lac Teguayo (Lac Salé) area south to the R. Adams thence southwest past the Rock Salt Cavern to the Seeds-Keeder River, and finally across to San Diego, the line being labeled in the north 'Route de Smith en 1826' and farther south merely 'Route de Smith'... All but one of the names mentioned by Jedediah Smith in his letter dated October 11, 1827... are present on this map..." Further Notes from the Files of Warren Heckrotte Full title: Nouvelle Carte | du | Mexique, | Et D'une Partie | Des Provinces Unies | De L'Amerique Centrale, | Dediée á |l'Acadamie Royale des Sciences de l Institute de France. | Par | A. H. Brué, Géographe du Roi, | Membre de la comm.on centrale de la societé de Géographie de Paris, membre-honoraire de celle de Londres, &a. | Paris. 1834. | Chez Ch. Picquet, Géographe de Roi et du Duc d'Orlean, | Propriétaire des Cartes et Atlas de Brué, | Quai Conti No. 17, près de l'Institut. | Oeuvre Posthume. || Seal of Brué, upon which is blindstamped Ch. Picquet, 17 Q. Conti A Paris, and over printed, Propriéte Acquise en 1835. || Explication des Couleurs [four colors indicated] || Echelles [ five linear scales] || Inset 1: Détails des environs De México et de la Vera-Cruz. || Inset 2: Complement de la Carte donnant Le Yucatan et une partie des provinces unies de L'Amérique Centrale. Provenance: Altea (Massimo De Martini), London, 11/95 Reference: W-TW 404 (R). Morgan and Wheat. Orozco y Berra, no 458. Five scales: Myriamétres; common French leagues, 25 to a degree; marine leagues, 20 to a degree; miles in 60 to a degree; and Spanish leagures, 17 1/2 to a degree. Scale in ordinary miles, about 26 miles to one inch. The 1840 and 1845 editions of map are titled: Nouvelle carte du Mexique, du Texas et d'une partie des états limitrophes---revue et augmentée par Ch. Piquet---. A printed notation on 1840 and 1845 maps reads: Publiée en 1834,1837, 1839, 1840, 1845 (on 1845 map). Orozco Y Berra, 494, p 103, also lists 1845 edition. Lot Amendments Condition: Faint darkening at centerfold, a few slight creases; nearly fine. Item number: 265153