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1842 British map (S.D.U.K.) of Texas, California and northern Mexico with hand-colored borders.

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1842 British map (S.D.U.K.) of Texas, California and northern Mexico with hand-colored borders.
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1842 British map (S.D.U.K.) of Texas, California and northern Mexico with hand-colored borders. 15½" x 13". A well-detailed and hand-colored, steel-engraved map of what is now the western U.S. but at the time was just Texas (a separate Republic), California (under Mexican administration) and northern Mexico, entitled "Central America including Texas, California and the northern states of Mexico," printed in London for the Atlas of Atlases by the Society for Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (in operation from 1826 to 1846 "to provide improving information at affordable prices for people who would otherwise have been deprived of education"), excellent condition.