WYLD, James Sr. (1790-1836). Mexico the British Possessions in North America and the United States … 1846. importantamericanmaps Gerard Mercator

Gerard Mercator

Guillaume Danet and Jacques-Francois Benard

EXTREMELY FINE engraved view of the city of Quebec

cartographer and a Hebrew scholar who taught at the University of Basel

it was published to accompany an account of Champlain's voyages in New France - in this case the most complete version

WYLD, James Sr. (1790-1836). Mexico the British Possessions in North America and the United States … 1846. importantamericanmaps Gerard MercatorWYLD, James Sr. (1790 1836). Mexico the British Possessions in North America and the United States 1846. Engraved case map; printed on two sheets, dissected into 36 sections and mounted on linen, edged in green silk, contemporary outline hand coloring. London: 1846. 56 x 53 sheet, 60 x 64 framed. A superbly detailed large scale English map of North America at the onset of the Mexican American war. Englands position favored Mexico, in part because it