{"product_id":"mexico-and-central-america-map-1886-regional-print-mexico-city-tehuantepec-honduras","title":"Mexico \u0026 Central America Map 1886 Regional Print - Mexico City, Tehuantepec, Honduras","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Weimar Geographisches Institut, one of Germany's oldest and most prolific atlas publishers, issued this map of Mexico and Central America in 1886 as part of the forty-ninth edition of its long-running Grosser Hand-Atlas des Himmels und der Erde, a title that had by this point passed through generations of editors including H. Kiepert, C.F. Weiland and C. Graef, whose name appears directly on this sheet. By the atlas's forty-ninth printing the lithographic quality had noticeably declined from its earlier editions, a genuine trade-off of the era's mass-market atlas publishing, where commercial longevity increasingly came at the expense of the crispness found on the institute's earlier printings. The map's two insets track competing proposed railway routes across the Central American isthmus, in Tehuantepec and in Honduras, capturing German commercial and engineering interest in transoceanic transit options during exactly the period American planners were weighing the same routes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Tehuantepec inset traces the proposed rail route that would, within another eight years, actually be completed in 1894, connecting Gulf and Pacific shipping across Mexico's narrowest point. The Honduras inset shows a competing rail proposal that, unlike its Mexican counterpart, was never finished, though construction reached far enough inland from the Atlantic coast to help establish the fruit-export agriculture that would come to define Honduras's economy for decades afterward. Mexico's states are color-coded across the main map, following the atlas's standard convention for distinguishing political divisions. The Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific, labeled in German as \"Stiller Ozean,\" bracket the isthmus on either side, the two coastlines these competing railway schemes were each trying to connect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn interesting gift for anyone with an interest in transportation history, since the map's two competing railway insets capture a real infrastructure race between Mexican and Honduran routes that history ultimately decided in Mexico's favor. TheMapVault also carries Schonberg's 1865 American atlas map sharing this sheet's exact title, and Matthews-Northrup's later 1943 Mexico map from an entirely different publishing era; this 1886 German edition is the only one of the three built specifically around the isthmus railway question. It's supplied unframed, available across the full range of nine sizes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheMapVault","offers":[{"title":"16x20 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58587841200459,"sku":"SKU2123-16x20","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58587841233227,"sku":"SKU2123-A2","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58587841265995,"sku":"SKU2123-18x24","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58587841298763,"sku":"SKU2123-50x70","price":41.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58587841331531,"sku":"SKU2123-A1","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58587841364299,"sku":"SKU2123-24x32","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58587841397067,"sku":"SKU2123-70x100","price":68.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58587841429835,"sku":"SKU2123-75x100","price":68.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58587841462603,"sku":"SKU2123-A0","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU2123.jpg?v=1790250172","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/en-us\/products\/mexico-and-central-america-map-1886-regional-print-mexico-city-tehuantepec-honduras","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}