(Paris: Andriveau-Goujon, 1854).

VERY SCARCE LARGE WALL MAP OF NORTH AMERICA IN 1854. With an early depiction of the Trans-Mississippi West, including a not yet boundary completed Texas, Ozark District, Mandan District, Osage District and a massive Nebraska Territory as well as an early attempt at defining the Washington and Oregon territories. The map includes the Arctic and Polar regions, Greenland, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean area.
Adolphe Hippolyte Dufour, also known as Auguste-Henri Dufour, lived 1795 - 1865. Based in Paris he was well known in his time, his maps having been published over a number of decades. He worked with many cartographers and engravers of his day and left a rich body of work. His association with Andriveau-Goujon was significant.
America in 1854 was undergoing significant political activity regarding the expansion of the country. In January Senator Stephen Douglas introduced a bill to form the Nebraska Territory. The bill sparked major debates related to slavery issues and evolved into the Kansas–Nebraska Act. In March at the Battle of Cieneguilla, The U.S. First Regiment of Dragoons attacked a larger force of Jicarilla Apache and Ute Native Americans near present-day Pilar, New Mexico. The Americans were forced to retreat after losing more than half their number. In May, the Kansas–Nebraska Act wass signed into law, creating Kansas Territory and Nebraska Territory, opening new lands, repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowing settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries. In August, at the Grattan massacre, a group of U.S. Army soldiers in Nebraska Territory in present-day Wyoming are killed by Lakota Sioux warriors after they killed Chief Conquering Bear, starting the First Sioux War. In October Abraham Lincoln, in his "Peoria speech", expresses opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, Popular Sovereignty, and the expansion of slavery in the United States.
This rare map of the country in 1854 provides context and geography at a most significant time in American history, a time of expansion and of internal debate regarding slavery and the future makeup of the country. Item #34833

A rare wall map of North America which appeared in Andriveau-Goujon's Atlas Choix Very handsome with contemporary hand colouring, engraved by Flahaut, Text by Warin. 940mm (H) x 680mm (L); the folded map in case 230mm x 145mm, the map laid on canvas and divided into 21 foldable quadrants with the elegant original marbled slipcase The map in perfect condition, the slipcase with a bit of wear at the corners.