[Rarebooks] FS: Smith & Hardcastle's "Map of the Valley of Mexico" Washington: 1850

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Smith, Martin Luther and Edmund La Fayette Hardcastle. REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, Communicating... a Map of the Valley of Mexico, From Surveys by Lieutenants Smith and Hardcastle. (Washington): No pub. 1850. 8vo. 13,(1)pp. With the large folding lithograph map (66 x 50cm.), with routes and defenses in red & blue, in a rear pocket. Bound in red buckram with "Map of the Valley of Mexico" and the authors' names stamped on the front cover. The map is in fine condition.     $1,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
Very scarce. This is the Senate Executive Report, No. 11 of the First Session of the 31st Congress. This large map is the first survey of the valley of Mexico ever made by triangulation, and is the best map of the area at the time. A key map for the study of the Mexican-American War.

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