Carte Generale Des Etats-Unis D'amerique Comprenant Une Partie Des Districts De L'ouest Et De La Nouvelle Bretagne - Fine French Map Of American From 1840 FrançOis Pierre Guillaume Guizot

This wonderfully detailed map of the United States was designed by François Pierre Guillaume Guizot. It was published in Paris by Kaeppelin et Cie in 1840 - one of several editions published between the late 1830s and early 1850s that chronicle the westward expansion of America. The map presents a number of fascinating contemporary details, though some are outdated or obsolete. Finely engraved toponyms identify a variety of settlements, Native American villages, fortifications, and geographic features. Topography is depicted in hachure, showing a continual range of mountains running between northern Alabama and the mouth of the St. Lawrence. Near the latter, an incomplete border between Maine and New Brunswick favors the Americans prior to its establishment by the 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty. The vast western expanses across the Mississippi River are vaguely divided into Native American districts (Hurons, Sioux, Mandans, Osage, and Ozark). Seminoles are named in Florida - bloody ongoing efforts to remove them would persist into the late 1850s. Texas remains an independent republic and a handful of early railroads are shown. The Wilming and Raleigh was completed the same year as publication as the longest railroad in the world, though it does not appear on the map. Sheet Width (in) 21.3 Sheet Height (in) 16.9 Condition Description Printed on thin paper and formerly separated along fold lines. Professionally cleaned and repaired, though there are some visible closed tears and a few tiny spots of paper loss in the lower left. Faint toning remains seen in the lower right, and there a few other (repaired) tears in the margins. Good condition overall.