Mexico & Central America Map 1867 Regional Print - Mexico City, Yucatan, Guatemala

Schonberg & Company repackaged its cartography the same year, 1867, into a more focused Atlas of the United States and Canada with Mexico and the West Indies, distributed through agents as far away as San Francisco and Chicago, a leaner companion to the firm's full World Atlas that dropped everything but North American content and gave this Mexico sheet its own distinct title page. The map is remarkably current for its moment, labeling Alaska as "New U.S. Territory, formerly Russian," a detail reflecting the United States' purchase of the territory from Russia that same year and one absent from Schonberg's larger World Atlas edition, evidence the firm was actively revising its engravings right up to the moment of publication. Eleven small ship vignettes scattered across the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean decorate the sheet, a nod to the genuine maritime traffic still crossing those waters even as Mexico itself was only just emerging from the chaos of the French intervention and Maximilian's execution earlier that same year.

Mexico's individual states and territories are shown in color-coded counties, giving the sheet a level of internal administrative detail beyond simple national boundaries. The Yucatan Peninsula extends distinctly to the east, its coastline traced with the same care given to the rest of the country. A dedicated inset of Central America, including Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, occupies the map's lower corner at its own separate scale, extending the sheet's coverage well beyond Mexico proper. The Sierra Madre ranges and the Gulf of California are both identifiable across the main map, giving readers a sense of the terrain separating Mexico's Pacific and Gulf coasts.

A timely gift for a collector interested in the exact year the Mexican republic reasserted itself after the French intervention, or for anyone drawn to the small nautical detail of the ship vignettes scattered across this sheet. TheMapVault also carries Schonberg's own 1865 Central America map, which leans further into isthmus detail at Mexico's expense, and Mitchell's 1864 Mexico sheet from the intervention's height; this 1867 printing is the most current of the three, capturing both Maximilian's fall and, in its Alaska label, the Russian purchase happening the very same year. It ships unframed, in the same full range of nine sizes as every print in the collection.