Digital Image: 1858 Garcia y Cubas Map of Oaxaca, Mexico - w/ Mezcal!

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Digital Image: 1858 Garcia y Cubas Map of Oaxaca, Mexico - w/ Mezcal!

Oaxaca-garciaycubas-1858_d

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  • Oaxaca.
  • Added: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:03:00
  • Original Document Scale: 1 : 990000
The only historic map that mentions Mezcal!
$50.00

Title


Oaxaca.
  1858 (dated)     21.75 x 27.5 in (55.245 x 69.85 cm)     1 : 990000

Description


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Digital Map Information

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Cartographer S


Antonio Garcia y Cubas (July 24, 1832 - February 9, 1912) was a Mexican cartographer, writer, engineer, and geographer active in Mexico City in the second half of the 19th and the early 20th centuries. He is considered Mexico's first great geographer. Garcia y Cubas was born in Mexico City. He was orphaned at birth and was raised by is aunt. When he turned 18, he enrolled in the Dirección General de Industria, a government sponsored technical school. There he studied engineering and geography, which he further pursued at the Colegio de San Gregorio, Colegio de Ingenieros. He graduated with honors in geography and from 1856, became a member of the Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística. His geographical work earned him the Order of Guadalupe, a Mexican second empire honorific, directly from the Emperor Maximillian. He published several atlases, including his important Atlas Geográfico, Estadístico e Histórico de la República Mexicana, and multiple decorative chromolithograph Atlas Pintoresco e Históricos covering Mexico, Cuba, Spain, and elsewhere. Today his work is scarce and highly desirable. More by this mapmaker...


Hesiquio Iriarte (1824 - August 30, 1903) was a Mexican artist, lithographer, and publisher active in the second half of the 19th century. Iriarte was born in Mexico City, the son of Mariano Iriate and Asuncion Zúñgia. Iriarte began working in the lithographic studios of M. Murgurïa y Cie. in around or slightly before 1847. He founded his own firm, Litografía de Iriarte y Compañía, in 1854. He was a prosperous lithographer with a large corpus. His most famous work, 'El Pulquero' was produced early in his career under Murgurïa. In cartographic circles, he worked extensively with Antonio Garcia y Cubas (1832 - 1912), lithographing maps for the great Atlas Geográfico, Estadístico e Histórico de la República Mexicana. His workshop was at Calle de St. Clara no. 23, Mexico. Learn More...


J. M. Muñozgúren (fl. c 1850 - 1865) was a lithographer and engraver active in Mexico City during the second half of the 19th century. Most of Muñozgúren's work is associated with the lithographic firm of H. Iriarte y Cia. He engraved extensively for the Antonio Garcia y Cubas (1832 - 1912) Atlas Geográfico, Estadístico e Histórico de la República Mexicana. Learn More...


José Mariano Fernandez de Lara (1799 - 1892) was a Mexican publisher and printer active in Mexico City the middle to late 19th century. Fernandez de Lara was born in Mexico to a family of silversmiths. Eschewing the smithing trade, he began his printing business around 1822. At the time, printing in Mexico was undergoing a revolution. Prior to Mexican Independence (1821), printing was tightly controlled by the Spanish Crown, who insisted that only those with a Privilegio Real could operate presses. With newfound freedom of the press, and the need for a strong national identity, as well as the development of economical printing techniques like lithography, lead to an explosion of printing in the early 1820s. In 1821 alone the number of presses in Mexico City jumped from 8 to 15. His earliest work was crude, exhibiting little skill, but a passion for political canvassing for thought-leaders of the day, among them Fernández de Lizardi (1776 - 1827) and Gómez Farías (1781 - 1858). He soon became a master printer, employing the best Mexican engravers and typesetters of the generation. The Lara press prospered until the late 19h century, issuing books, atlases, posters, religious works, and more. Ultimately, the firm's business began to dry up as more advanced printing techniques led to greater competition. The firm closed its doors in 1878 and Lara himself died in 1892. Learn More...

Source


Garcia y Cubas, A., Atlas Geografico, Estadistico e Historico de la Republica Mexicana. (Imprenta de Jose Mariano Fernandez de Lara) 1858.     The Atlas Geográfico, Estadístico e Histórico de la República Mexicana was the first geta atlas of Mexico, produced by a Mexican, and printed in Mexico. The atlas was published in 1858 by Antonio Garcia y Cubas (1832 - 1912), Mexico's first great geographer, when he was just 26. It featured 28 individual maps of Mexican states, two general maps of Mexico, and two plates partially in Nahuatl, the ideographic written language of the Aztecs, illustrating the historic pilgrimage of the Aztec peoples form New Mexico to the Valley of Mexico. At the time, Mexico was still reeling from its losses during the Mexican American War (1846 - 1848), 10 years earlier. Garcia y Cubas' work was thus significant in affirming Mexican national identity. Today, the atlas is rare. According to Sabin in A Dictionary of Books Relating to America: from its Discovery to the Present Time, the print run was limited to just 300. The work was printed in Mexico City by Mexican publishing pioneer José Mariano Fernandez de Lara. Many of the maps were engraved by Litog. De Decaen, H. Iriarte y Ca, and J. M. Muñozgúren.

References


Rumsey 4116.021. Mapoteca Manuel Orozco y Berra, CGF.ATLRM.M31.V1.0001-13.26.