Engraved (or lithographed?) map, hand-colored. 60.5x70 cm (23¾x27½"), folding into original gilt-lettered cloth covers 14.5x9.5 cm (5¾x3¾").
Detailed map of Texas, which also covers most of New Mexico and smaller portions of Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana. There is a table of the population broken down by county. All told, there were a bit over 1.5 million people in the state at the time.
Provenance: Turtle Island, 12/94
References: Phillips Maps, p 848, lists a state dated 1881 in title and also one dated 1883 in title. There is a larger size version, about 36"x 32", with a fuller title, dated 1881. Sloan, Cat 6, '88 had copy of this dated 1882. Heaston, Cat 40, 9/03, has copy of this dated 1873. Sloan, Cat 7, '90, has a smaller size map, 1878. Reese, Cat 170, 11/97, 1866, abt 16 x 14, 2000.