Anton ROESSLER. The Latest Map of the State of Texas...1874 Active Quadrupeds and remains a cornerstone document

and remains a cornerstone document in American and Canadian cartography

also including the State of Mississippi

435 of which appeared in The Birds of America

Hand-colored aquatint engravings

Anton ROESSLER. The Latest Map of the State of Texas...1874 Active Quadrupeds and remains a cornerstone documentROESSLER, Anton (1826 1893) The Latest Map of the State of Texas Lithograph 1874 40 x 45 sheet, 51 x 57 framed. In 1874 Roessler wrote: "Texas is, or will be, the wealthiest state in the Union, possessing as she does great agricultural capabilities, all the varieties of soils, minerals and useful rocks known to exist in the world." His extraordinarily detailed large scale map was designed to demonstrate the truth of his declaration. After De Cordovas