WYLD, James Sr. (1790-1836). Mexico the British Possessions in North America and the United States … 1846. Medici Plano de Una Parte de

Plano de Una Parte de la Provincia de la Luisiana y de Otra de la Florida Occidental y de la Provincia de Texas [Map of a part of the Province of Louisiana and the other of West Florida and the Province of Texas]

Painted by John James Audubon (1785-1851) with background likely by Victor Gifford Audubon (1809-1860)

Thomas Fairfax

cross-stretchers supporting glazed compasses

Jean Baptiste Benard de la Harpe (1683-1765) is one of those quixotic characters who

WYLD, James Sr. (1790-1836). Mexico the British Possessions in North America and the United States … 1846. Medici Plano de Una Parte deWYLD, 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