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A Harrison Godwin Rarity
Scarce pictorial map illustrationg the routes of the Panama Mail Steam Ship Company, but Harrison Godwin.
The map provides a marvelous historical and whimsical image of North America, Central America and the northerm part of South America, extending to the Colombian Coastline.
The illustrations depict the adventures of one of the passengers, on his transit from San Francisco to New York, including an excursion through Guatemala, watching a cockfight, meeting new friends on board the steamship, and exotic scenes in Central America and the Caribbean.
A second series of vignettes focuses on the historical elements of the map, including Uncle Sam purchasing the Canal Zone from Colombia, Balboa's crossing the Isthums to see the Pacific for the first time in 1513, and other eraly historical facts. There are also vignettes showing the indigenous peoples, products and turistical facts about Central America.
In North America, there are a number of other whimsical images, including an armed robbery in Chicago. Inset maps detail a two day excursion in Guatemala and Charles 'Lindy' Lindbergh's 1927-28 good-will tour through Latin America. At the center of the map a large inset details the luxurious accommodations available on board the Panama Mail Steamship. -
This remarkable work is perhaps the rarest of Godwin's works and quite possibly the most lively.
Rarity
This is the second example we have offered for sale in over 20 years.
![Chart of the Coast of California from San Blas to San Francisco Drawn chiefly from the Spanish Surveys, the Charts of Vancouver &c. the whole much improved by recent observations made by English and French Naval Officers . . . 1854 [Additions to 1862]](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/58999.jpg)
