Robinson, John Hamilton

A MAP OF MEXICO, LOUISIANA AND THE MISSOURI TERRITORY, INCLUDING ALSO THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA TERRITORY, EAST & WEST FLORIDA, GEORGIA, SOUTH CAROLINA & PART OF THE ISLAND OF CUBA, BY JOHN H. ROBINSON. M.D. MEMBER OF THE MILITARY PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, MEMBER OF THE WESTERN MUSEUM SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI, AND BRIGR GENERAL IN THE REPUBLICAN ARMIES OF MEXICO &C. PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED AND COLOURED BY JOHN L. NARSTIN, 1819

Engraved map on twelve sheets joined as six and mounted on linen (each ca. 35 x 22 1/2 in.; 889 x 569 mm, and totaling ca. 70 x 67 1/2 in.), engraved by H. Anderson, contemporary outline handcoloring and light varnishing, large engraved allegorical vignette by Anderson above title depicting Robinson bowing before two female figures holding shields bearing the federal eagles of Mexico and the United States, respectively, while a winged female hovers in the background; lengthy engraved dedication below the title ("To Maj. Gen. Thomas Hinds, Brigr. Gen. John Wood, Col. Coles Mead, Edward Turner Esqr. Jonathon Thompson Esqr. Vela Metcalfe Esqr. & James Metcalfe M.D. This Map is Respectfully inscribed as a testimony of their Patronage, in Promoting the Publication by the Author"); eight statistical and other informational tables engraved lower left, including latitude and longitude, populations of various provinces, size and locations of Indian peoples, and mountain heights.

PROVENANCE: The Library of Congress (small stamp below the imprint, "Map Division Library of Congress"; likely a copyright deposit copy) — Thomas W. Streeter (penciled note in margin above vignette, "By exchange with the Library of Congress for the surveys by George Washington Dec. 1939"; see also Streeter's article "The Rollins Collection of Western Americana," in Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. IX (June 1948): 203, where he describes his attempts to secure Rollins's copy of the Robinson map before "a search of about a dozen years was rewarded by my finding a procurable duplicate of the map in a great institutional library") — Yale University

The six sheets uniformly handsomely framed and glazed with UVIII Plexiglass. A very little bit of minor chipping at margins and sheet edges, occasional browning or minor soiling, some scattered craqulure from varnish.