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Philippe Marie Vandermaelen: Amer. Sep. No. 55. Partie Des Etats-Unis [Texas & Oklahoma]
Title: Amer. Sep. No. 55. Partie Des Etats-Unis [Texas & Oklahoma] Map Maker: Philippe Marie Vandermaelen
Description: Second edition of Vandermaelen's exceptional map of Eastern Texas and Oklahoma, extending from Nacogdoches and the Sabine in the east to include Austin, Dallas, etc.and showing the Santa Fe Route. The first edition includes a lithographer's credit and date in the lower right corner, along with Vandermaelen's credit in the lower left corner, both of which are removed in the later edition. While this is the easiest feature identifying the two editions of the map, the plates are in fact completely different engravings. One of the earliest and most detailed to focus on this region. Shows the Neches River, Rio de la Trinidad ou Arcokisao, Rio Colorado de Texas, Rio Gaudaluape (with a Rancho on the Indian Trail), Lac de las Yuntas, Vado de S.Xavier, Rio Florida, Lac Satillo, Monts de San Saba, Rio Brazos de Dios, Petite R. Brazos de Dios, the Presidio (Ft. Houston), Pawnee Villages, a French Canadian Settlement near Jonesboro and Ft. Towson, Ft. Fabry on the Canadian River, established in 1741, Major Long's Route and substantial other detail. A remarkable map in comparison in terms of scale, at a time when no other map maker was publishing maps of this region. From Vandermaelen's remarkable 6 volume atlas, which if combined as globe gores forms an immense globe. Vandermaelen accomplished the first atlas mapping of the world on a uniform scale. His treatment of the Western US is a landmark in the history the cartography of the Transmississippi West, undertaking to map in 20 sheets a region which American publishers were virtually ignoring. Condition Description: Soiled at centerfold, with some fold splitting, repaired on verso. Paper a bit soft.
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