Heading: (Mexico - Map)
Author:
Title: Carta De Comunicaciones De Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos Formada de orden de la Secretaria de Estado y del Despacho de Comunicaciones y Obras Publicas, por el Coronel Bodo von Glumer... Primera Hoja [and] Segunda Hoja
Place Published: Berlin
Publisher:Berliner Lithog. Institut.
Date Published: 1896
Description:

Color lithographed map on two sheets. Each sheet approx. 130x237 cm (51¼x93¼") plus margins. Backed with linen and dissected for folding, each in paper chemise and red cloth slipcase lettered in gilt & stamped with Mexican eagle seal, measuring 36x25 cm (14¼x9¾").

Rare map published by the Bureau of the American Republics, ;providing perhaps the single most comprehensive treatment of Mexican railroad, post and telegraph lines (including those extending into the U.S.) available at the end of the 19th Century. The Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, Volume 38, 1906, notes as follows: ; "A general map of some interest is that entitled Carta de Comunicaciones de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, on the scale of 1:1,000,000, or 15.8 m. = 1 in., compiled by Colonel Bodo von Glumer and published in 1895-6 by the Secretaria de Estado. It corresponds to our U. S. post-route maps, and shows mail routes and telegraph and telephone lines." In Volume 9 of the Monthly Bulletin of the Bureau of the American Republics, July-December 1900, the following description of a map being prepared by the Bureau appears: "New Map of Mexico. The Bureau of the American Republics will shortly publish a map of the United Mexican States, compiled from official and other sources, and giving information only found scattered about in a number of special maps not accessible to the general public. The map, which is on a scale of 50 miles to the inch, besides the physical and political geography of Mexico, indicates all the mining districts with the nature of the mines worked, the roadways and railways, telegraph lines, principal areas of culture, and other data of general interest." OCLC lists seven copies, locating six of them, all in the United States.

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Just a little shelf wear to the slipcases, both sheets of the map in fine condition.