Heading: (Wall Map - North America)
Author: Monk, Jacob
Title: New Map of that Portion of North America, Exhibiting the United States and Territories, the Canadas, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Mexico, also Central America, and the West India Islands
Place Published: Baltimore
Publisher:
Date Published: 1854
Description:

Engraved wall map, hand-colored. 140x150 cm. (55x59"), backed with linen, on rollers.

Large wall map of the Unites States and Central America, with inset of the world on Mercator's projection, and many sailing ships on the oceans. The western U.S. is in flux - New Mexico encompasses present Arizona and some of Nevada, with the remainder of Nevada a part of Utah, which also claims much of Colorado; the rest of Colorado, as also Kansas and part of Wyoming, is part of "Territory of Nebraska as Proposed," to the north is an oversized Minnesota, and an unnamed Montana peopled by various tribes of Indians. Oregon and Washington each stretch east across present Idaho into Montana. The border with Mexico is in pre-Gadsden state. Wheat Transmississippi 794; Wheat Gold Region 243.

Darkening, some rubbing and surface loss, wear at top and bottom edges with rollers coming loose, dark staining at right-hand portion affecting parts of eastern seaboard and New Englans as well as Caribbean islands; good, sold as is.