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Lithographed map. 39.6x48.3 cm (15½x19½); bound in, as issued, to "Bulletin de la Société de Géographie, quatrième série, Tome II, No. 12, Decembre."

Uncommon map, briefly described by Warren Heckrotte as extending "west from Lake Michigan; includes all of Texas north to Canada. This map is clearly taken from the Tanner map of the United States, dated 1853 (on a pasted on slip). So, there is an 1851 issue of this map. Both issues are unrecorded in the literature. This map is included in the Bulletin de la Société de Géographie for December, 1851, not as the map states, the October and November issue in which an article on the Western Territories appears. There is no text accompanying the map in this issue. There also is small map of the entrance of the Anadir river in Siberia." The Tanner map has two neat ink corrections, one crossing out "Mississippi" near the entrance of Mobile Bay, the other correcting the spelling of Occidentale in the longitude statement at lower right.

Provenance: J Potter, San Francisco Book Fair, 2/14/09

References: W-TW 736 - "shows the West as it was known earlier." He doesn't raise question about map it was extracted from.