Mexico. By J. Arrowsmith. Mexico, Shewing the connection with the Ports of Acapulco, Vera Cruz, & Tampico; on double the scale of the Map.

This map of Mexico, published by J. Arrowsmith in 1842, brings, below the lower neat line at center: "London, Pubd. 15 Feby. 1842, by J. Arrowsmith, 10 Soho Square". In the lower right blank margin has the number 44.
This rare engraved map (Mexico, all of Texas, the Southwest and California to above San Francisco, and east to the Mississippi River, and east to Tallahassee, and north to approximately Council Bluff) is on heavy paper with atlas tab intact, original color (outline and wash). It shows Texas as an independent republic. Rare.
This map appeared in The London Atlas of Universal Geography (1842-1850), “remarkable for its understated elegance and clarity... one of the first truly modern atlases” (Rumsey). The map first appeared in Arrowsmith’s 1832 atlas, in which Texas was shown in the earlier smaller conformation, without the Panhandle and the southern border at the Nueces rather than the Rio Grande.
“On February 15, 1842, John Arrowsmith published a map of Mexico, with all the typical Arrowsmith details in the north. The ‘Swamp Lakes & Is.’ with the legend ‘The tide is said to rise very high in this Swamp—water fresh’ is present, and ‘Youta or Gt. Salt L.’ is of the oblong type, with the ‘American Fur Co. Depot’ on its eastern shore.
The other items contained in the Great Basin are typical of Arrowsmith’s maps of the period.”

Reference: Phillips, America, p. 409. Phillips, Atlases 789:44. Rumsey 4613:044. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West I, p. 179 & #459