Lithographed map, hand-colored in outline, with 2 large insets that are fully hand-colored. 91x74 cm (35¾x29"), backed with linen, folded.
Rare map of Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico, created with an eye toward exploitation of its mineral wealth. One of the hand-colored inset maps shows the geology of the state, the other the "Ethnological-Linguistical" makeup. There is a third inset, "Profile of Sinaloa, following the road from Mazatlan to Durango," uncolored. This map was issued with a 19-page pamphlet, Map of Sinaloa with Statistical and Geological Notes, and apparently separately as well. OCLC/WorldCat lists two copies of the map, locating one of them (at at the Huntington); three copies of the pamphlet with the map (two at UC Berkeley and one at the University Forschungsbibliothek Erfurt Gotha), and two copies of the book with no mention of the map (at the Huntington and the New York Historical Society). On the back of the map is the ink signature of L. Janin, a well-known mining engineer.
Provenance: Ross Valley Book Company, 6/87
References: Phillips, Maps of America, p 791. El Territoria Mexicana Vol 2, p 248, reproduces German version of map. Orozco y Berra, no. 823.