COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Brue, Adrien Hubert, 1786-1832
Date:
1839
Short Title:
Nouvelle Carte du Mexique, Et D'Une Partie Des Provinces Unies De L'Amerique Centrale.
Publisher:
Charles Picquet
Publisher Location:
Paris
Type:
Case Map
Obj Height cm:
95
Obj Width cm:
63
Scale 1:
4,800,000
Note:
This is the fourth edition of the 1834 Brue map showing Jedidiah Smith's routes in the west. Although Picquet says this 1839 edition is augmented from the 1834, I can find no changes between the two. Wheat calls the 1834 edition "one of the foundation stones of western mapping history." Jedidiah Smith's geography in the Great Basin and California is shown, based on a letter of Smith describing his journeys published in the Nouvelles Annales de Voyages, Paris 1828 (Wheat). Two insets show the environs of Mexico City and Vera Cruz, and the Yucatan. Texas is still shown as a part of Mexico. Under the title Picquet has added his name as publisher; Picquet acquired all Brue's maps from his widow in 1835. There was a second edition in 1835, and a third in 1837. Wheat does not mention this fourth edition. Map is hand painted in outline color, dissected into 21 sections and mounted on linen. Map folds into loose marbled paper wrappers and then into a marbled paper covered slip case with a red label stamped with "Mexique" in gilt.
Reference:
cf Wheat 404.
Country:
Mexico
Full Title:
Nouvelle Carte du Mexique, Et D'Une Partie Des Provinces Unies De L'Amerique Centrale. Dediee a l'Academie Royale des Sciences de l Institut de France. Par A.H. Brue, Geographe du Roi, Membre de la common. centrale de la societe de Geographie de Paris, membre-honoraire de celle de Londres, &a. Revue et augmentee par Ch. Picquet, Geographe du Roi et du Due d'Orleans, Proprietaire des Cartes et Atlas de Brue, Quai Conti No. 17, pres de l'Institut. Paris, 1839. Publiee en 1834; Revue en 1837, 1839 ... (with 2 inset maps).
List No:
5386.001
Series No:
2
Publication Author:
Brue, Adrien Hubert, 1786-1832
Pub Date:
1839
Pub Title:
Nouvelle Carte du Mexique, Et D'Une Partie Des Provinces Unies De L'Amerique Centrale. Dediee a l'Academie Royale des Sciences de l Institut de France. Par A.H. Brue, Geographe du Roi, Membre de la common. centrale de la societe de Geographie de Paris, membre-honoraire de celle de Londres, &a. Revue et augmentee par Ch. Picquet, Geographe du Roi et du Due d'Orleans, Proprietaire des Cartes et Atlas de Brue, Quai Conti No. 17, pres de l'Institut. Paris, 1839. Publiee en 1834; Revue en 1837, 1839 ... (with 2 inset maps).
Pub Note:
See note field above.
Pub List No:
5386.000
Pub Type:
Case Map
Pub Maps:
1
Pub Height cm:
23
Pub Width cm:
15
Image No:
5386001
Authors:
Brue, Adrien Hubert, 1786-1832
Collection:
Rumsey Collection
Nouvelle Carte du Mexique, Et D'Une Partie Des Provinces Unies De L'Amerique Centrale.
