Description
One of the Earliest Printed Maps of Mexico City Following Mexico’s Independence
Garcia Conde, Diego (1760-1822) Surveyor – Calvo, Rafael María Reviser – Maverick, Peter (1780-1831) Engraver. Plano general de la Ciudad de Mexico. Levantado por el Teniente Coronel Don Diego Garcia Conde en el ano de 1793. Aumentado y corregido en lo mas notable por el Teniente Coronel retirado, Don Rafael Maria Calvo en el de 1830. (New York: Peter Maverick, 1830)
Engraved folding map of Mexico City in 1793, revised in 1830 by Rafael Maria Calvo and engraved by Peter Maverick of New York City, hand-colored. Tipped into original brown and gilt wallet. One of the most important maps of Mexico City, this is the third edition (the first published in the US) published between Mexico’s independence and the war with the United States.
Condition: Leather wallet shows some wear from use. Map is folded as designed. No wear through at folding, map is in very good shape.
“Son of Peter Rushton Maverick, he published his first work at the age of nine. He established his own business in NYC in 1802. He moved to Newark, NJ, 1809, setting up shop there, while maintaining an office in NYC. During this period Asher B. Durand became his apprentice and, from 1817 to 1820, his partner. Maverick returned to NYC in 1820 and took up lithography, becoming one of the country’s early lithographers and publishing, in 1824, the plates for the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. During his lifetime he engraved or lithographed about 1500 bookplates, band notes, maps, and books and magazine illustrations. He also engraved portraits. Maverick remained in NYC until his death. Among his many pupils were Robert C. Bruen and John W. Casilear, as well as his own children: Peter, Jr., Catharine, Emily, Maria Ann, and Octavia Maverick. Engravers Samuel and Andrew Maverick were his brothers, Samuel R., Andrew R., and Aaron Howell Maverick his nephews, and Ann Anderson Maverick his niece by marriage” – Artprice
