![[ Southwest & Texas ] Le Nouveau Mexique, Avec La Partie Septentrionale De L'Ancien, ou De La Nouvelle Espagne By Rigobert Bonne](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/99395.jpg)
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A fine example of this marvelous map of the southwest, one of the few maps to focus on this region during the later part of the 18th Century. Baja California is oddly misprojected and reflects the mission system established by the Jesuits in the 18th Century. The Southwest is dominated by the Rio Grande and the various settlements and missions along the river extending north to Santa Fe and Taos. Texas is named and several interior settlements are shown. Several notes indicate 17th Century explorers tracks, both at land and sea. An excellent example of this striking map.
Rigobert Bonne (1727-1794) was an influential French cartographer of the late-eighteenth century. Born in the Lorraine region of France, Bonne came to Paris to study and practice cartography. He was a skilled cartographer and hydrographer and succeeded Jacques Nicolas Bellin as Royal Hydrographer at the Depot de la Marine in 1773. He published many charts for the Depot, including some of those for the Atlas Maritime of 1762. In addition to his work at the Depot, he is best known for his work on the maps of the Atlas Encyclopedique (1788) which he did with Nicholas Desmarest. He also made the maps for the Abbe Raynals’ famous Atlas de Toutes Les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre (1780).
More than his individual works, Bonne is also important for the history of cartography because of the larger trends exemplified by his work. In Bonne’s maps, it is possible to see the decisive shift from the elaborate decorations of the seventeenth century and the less ornate, yet still prominent embellishments of the early to mid-eighteenth century. By contrast, Bonne’s work was simple, unadorned, and practical. This aesthetic shift, and the detail and precision of his geography, make Bonne an important figure in mapping history.
![Texas and Mexico, in 1846; Comprising the History of Both Countries, with an Account of the Soil, Climate, and Productions of Each [with map:] Mexico & Texas in 1846. Seat of War.](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/100804.jpg)
![(Texas and California) The Whig Almanac and United States Register for 1843 [bound with:] The Whig Almanac and Politicians' Register for 1845 [bound with:] The Whig Almanac, and Politicians' Register for 1846 [with maps of Texas and Oregon] [bound with:] The Whig Almanac: 1847.](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/87041.jpg)
