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Rare separately issued map of Mexico, Texas and part of the Southwestern United States.

The map is separately colored by states and shows towns, roads, rivers, mountains, etc. The detail of the road system in Texas suggests that there may have been a larger map of the United States by Logerot, but we have found no evidence of such a map. While it appears from the coloration that the map predates the Gadsden Purchase, we surmise from the title that it was in fact issued later. The map would appear to be very rare. We found no references to any other extent examples of the map in any printed bibliography or on line source.

The title of Logerot's separately issued map (Empire of Mexico) suggests that it was probably issued between 1864 and 1867. The Second Mexican Empire was ruled by Emperador Maximiliano de Habsburgo, who was installed by Napoleon III of France with the support of the Austrian and Spanish Crowns, in order to create a European-style, conservative Catholic monarchical system in Mexico.

On his arrival in 1864 with his wife, Empress Carlota of Mexico, Maximiliano I found himself in the middle of a political struggle between the Liberals, headed by Benito Juárez, and the Conservatives that backed the emperor. The two factions had set up parallel governments; the Conservatives in Mexico City, controlling central Mexico, and the Liberals in Veracruz. The Conservatives received funding from Europe, especially from Isabella II of Spain and Napoleon III of France; the Liberals found backing from United States Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, whose country fought its own Civil War until 1865. Maximilian became a pawn in this conflict. Because Emperor Maximilian was a viewed as a French puppet, he was unpopular and many citizens did not regard him as the legitimate leader of Mexico. He was executed by a firing squad in 1867, under the orders of President Benito Juárez in an attempt to dissuade any further foreign attempts to control Mexico.