[MAP] Disturnell's Treaty Map, 1847 Mexico Territory Ceded to the United States

Rittenhouse, Jack D. Disturnell's Treaty Map: The Map that was part of the Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty on Southwestern Borders, 1848. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Stagecoach Press, 1965. [12172]

Brown cloth, gilt title to spine faint, 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, 20 pp. of text, large folding map 24 3/4 x 33 3/4 inches, outlined in color. Previous owner's small return address label at the top of the first blank page. Very good. Hardcover.

"Text done on a hand-operated press." The map is a reproduction of "Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Mejico...Nueva York, 1847; Revised Edition."`

A reproduction of the rare Disturnell's Treaty Map, showing much of the United States west of the Mississippi River. The acceptance of a version of this map by Mexico resulted in the end of the Mexican American War, and the acquisition by the United States of a vast territory, including Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and parts of Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Afterwards, the United States was seeking a southern railroad route to the American West, which led to the Gadsden Purchase in 1852.

Jack D. Rittenhouse (1912-1991). b. Kalamazoo, Michigan; d. Albuquerque, New Mexico. Rittenhouse was a Western bookman, author, publisher, and historian. His Stagecoach Press issued some fifty titles between 1946 and 1967. He was the president of the Historical Society of New Mexico from 1968-1972, headed the Museum of New Mexico Press, and was the western history editor for the University of New Mexico Press.