Price: $675.00
SKU: 98891
MEDIUM: Lithograph with hand coloring
DATE: 1834.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 14 7/8 x 13 3/4" (37.8 x 34.9 cm)
DESCRIPTION: Alexis De Tocqueville's political map of North America.<br><br> The map provides a picture of the United States, showing the existing states, their populations and the year each was admitted to the Union. There are also some notes regarding the early history of America, including the settlements at Plymouth and Jamestown.<br><br> The region in current day Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska is noted as "Limits of the Great Desert inhabited only by Buffalos, Wild Horses, and a few wandering Tribes of Indians." In addition, two lines are noted, a line showing the northernmost growing limits for corn, and a north-south continental divide.<br><br> The remarks below the title include two notes regarding the population of Whites and Blacks in the slave and non-slave states.<br><br> Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel de Tocqueville was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America, wherein he examined the rising living standards and social conditions of individuals and their relationship to the market and state in Western societies.
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CONDITION: Good condition save for some surface soiling and soft offsetting from binding.
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