[Mexican Boundary Commission Report] Boundary between the United States and Mexico, as surveyed and marked by the International Boundary Commission, under the Convention of July 29th, 1882. Revived February 18th, 1889

International Boundary Commission

Edité par International Boundary Commission, 1899

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Important Atlas of the U.S. - Mexico BoundaryThis massive atlas of the United States - Mexico border was issued as the cartographic accompaniment to the two-part report of the International Boundary Commission issued the. Elephant folio. Original green cloth, gilt title to front cover: "MEXICAN / BOUNDARY COMMISSION / REPORT [rule] 1898 [rule] ATLAS". Some surface wear to front and back cover. Corners bumped and somewhat frayed. Spine bit shaken, with inner hinges separating. Double-page lithograph title page and 26 double-page lithograph sheets, comprising 21 maps (including 2-sheet index map) and 5 profiles. Pair of vertical creases through title page. Internally the map sheets generally clean and nice. Important Atlas of the U.S. - Mexico BoundaryThis massive atlas of the United States - Mexico border was issued as the cartographic accompaniment to the two-part report of the International Boundary Commission issued the year before. The detailed maps in this atlas reflect the Commission's tireless work to accurately depict the border from El Paso to San Diego. An oblong quarto volume of photographic plates documenting the re-monumentation of the land boundary was also issued separately along with a text report.The modern border between the United States and Mexico, which began as an imperial boundary between Spanish America and other European claims, was shaped by a series of major diplomatic and secretive territorial agreements: the 1762 Treaty of Fontainebleau (secretly transferred Louisiana from France to Spain), Pinckney s Treaty of 1795 (fixed the U.S. - Florida boundary), the 1800 Third Treaty of San Ildefonso (Spain secretly agreed to retrocede the Louisiana Territory to France, setting up Napoleon s later sale of Louisiana to the United States), the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, the 1819 Adams-On s Treaty, Texas secession (1836) and annexation (1846), the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and the 1853 Gadsden Purchase. Although the boundary had been settled in principle by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the day-to-day reality was a different story: environmental factors involving waterways, such as rivers and surrounding landscapes often complicated matters. In response to persistent uncertainty, the two nations created the International Boundary Commission in 1889 to apply the governing rules for a border shaped in crucial stretches by shifting waterways, above all the Rio Grande and the Colorado River, and to translate legal descriptions into a precisely surveyed, monumented line. The resulting large-scale atlas, issued to accompany the Commission s Report upon the survey and re-marking of the boundary between the United States and Mexico west of the Rio Grande, 1891-1896, represents the most exacting, systematically coordinated mapping of the land boundary to that date, which breaks an immense, varied frontier into clearly indexed sheets, detailed map panels, and elevation profiles, the whole integrating the best contemporary federal survey data, including material from the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and the U.S. Hydrographic Office.An essential work for the history of the U.S. - Mexico border.List of maps and profiles:Index A and B- Index map of the BoundaryMaps 1-4 California lineMap 5 Colorado River section of the BoundaryMaps 6-11 Arizona-Sonora oblique lineMaps 12-16 Parallel 31 21' North LatitudeMaps 16 and 17 Meridian sectionMaps 17-19 Parallel 31 47' North LatitudeMaps 20-24 Profile of the Boundary.

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• Titre: [Mexican Boundary Commission Report] Boundary between the United States and Mexico, as surveyed and marked by the International Boundary Commission, under the Convention of July 29th, 1882. Revived February 18th, 1889
• Éditeur: International Boundary Commission
• Date de parution: 1899
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: vg
• Type de livre: Book
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