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Includes: Sketch of Public Surveys in New Mexico to accompany Report of Surveyor General. 51x76 cm. (Small nicks at some folds). 1857. * Sketch of Public Surveys in New Mexico compiled from Maps on File in this Office. 58.5x81.5 cm. (Some darkening along folds). 1859. * Sketch of Public Surveys in New Mexico. 51x75 cm. (Split along several folds, trimmed at left margin.) 1861. * Sketch of Public Surveys in New Mexico to Accompany the Annual Report of the Surveyor General. 53.5x71 cm. (Some darkening along folds, trimmed at left margin.) 1862. * Sketch of Public Surveys in New Mexico to Accompany the Annual Report of the Surveyor General. 46.5x43.5 cm. (Split along several folds.) 1853. Together, 5 folding lithographed maps.

Interesting evolution of the mapping of the Southwest. The earliest of the maps is nearly blank, but they are rapidly filled in with mountains, streams, Indian tribes, forts, etc. The first four maps include what became Arizona Territory, as it was then part of New Mexico.