Exmo Sr Accompano A V E Varios Ejemplares De Un Prospecto Para La Publicacion Del Mapa De Los Estados

by Stephen Mclellan Staples

$450 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

1p., printed in yellow paper, with integral blank. 4to. Old folds. Item #377928 A rare letter soliciting subscriptions for an unpublished map of Mexico, proposed in 1831 by Stephen McLellan Staples, the surveyor general for the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Staples' map, which would have been a valuable firsthand addition to the cartography of the early Mexican Republic, was never published - he died less than a year after producing this

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