نبذة مختصرة : (Citation/Reference) Ristow, Walter W. A la carte, selected papers on maps and atlases, p. 204-221 ; (Citation/Reference) Wheat, C.I. Mapping the transmississippi West, 540 ; (Citation/Reference) Phillips. Maps of America, p. 410 ; (Language) Notes in Spanish and English. ; Copper engraving. ; Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. ; Historical map of Mexico divided into states including present day southwestern United States. Map also includes southern states east of the Mississippi River, portions of the Bahama islands, Cuba and Jamaica. Shows routes of generals, roads, cities and towns, Indian territories and important historical places. ; Disturnell's map is a reprint of the 1828 map by White, Gallaher & White. The twelfth edition is considered to be one of the treaty maps and included with the written treaty itself as an official cartographic reference source used for negotiating the peace treaty in 1848 which ended the Mexican War.--(cf. paper written by Lawrence Martin, A la carte, p.204). ; Engraved decorative title image of eagle biting snake perched atop a cactus with leaves representing the states of Mexico appears to the right of the title and was reproduced exactly by Disturnell from the earlier map by White, Gallaher & White.--(cf. A la carte, p. 211). ; Notes within map describe historical events, including those of the Mexican War. ; Two scale bars: "Scale of English miles" in title area and "Escala de millas de 3 en legua" above tables. ; Prime meridian: "Longitud o de Washington". Geographic coordinates converted to Greenwich. ; Includes 5 insets: Carta de los caminos &c. desde Vera Cruz y Alvarado a Méjico. [Scale 1:1,267,200] -- Map showing the battlegrounds of the 8th and the 9th, May 1846 / by J.H. Eaton 3d. Iny. -- Chart of the Bay of Vera Cruz / drawn by order of V. Admiral Baudin -- Tampico and its environs -- Plan of Monterey and its environs. ; Also Includes two distance and statistical tables, "Tabla de distancias", Tabla estadistica" and two profiles "The route ...
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