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The Republic of Texas

Large map of the World, published by James Wyld in London.

The map includes very early discoveries in the Arctic Regions, including D'Urville's discovery in 1840 and further east, the discoveries of Wilkes & Hudson in 1840.  Further west, below South America, New South Shetland, New Orkney or the Powell Isles and Trinity or Palmer's Land, mark the most extensive discoveries in the Antarctic, just above the Antarctic Circle.

In the Canadian Arctic, the state of exploration on the Eve of John Franklin's first voyage to the region in 1845 is shown, the final push toward the discovery of the Northwest Passage.

Alaska is shown as Russian America.

Texas is a Republic.

The region of South Australia has just been created.

Hong Kong is named, one year after the conclusion of the Opium War and China's transferring Hong Kong island to Britain.

Condition Description
A number of repaired tears and some areas of restoration, including most notably an area above and to the right of Georgia Island in the South Atlantic, which has been filled with paper to restore a whole in the map.
James Wyld Biography

James Wyld Sr. (1790-1836) was a British cartographer and one of Europe’s leading mapmakers. He made many contributions to cartography, including the introduction of lithography into map printing in 1812.

William Faden, another celebrated cartographer, passed down his mapmaking business to Wyld in 1823. The quality and quantity of Faden’s maps, combined with Wyld’s considerable skill, brought Wyld great prestige.

Wyld was named geographer to Kings George IV and William IV, as well as HRH the Duke of York. In 1825, he was elected an Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830. Also in 1830, his son, James Wyld Jr., took over his publishing house. Wyld Sr. died of overwork on October 14, 1836.

James Wyld Jr. (1812-87) was a renowned cartographer in his own right and he successfully carried on his father’s business. He gained the title of Geographer to the Queen and H.R.H. Prince Albert. Punch (1850) described him in humorous cartographic terms, “If Mr. Wyld’s brain should be ever discovered (we will be bound he has a Map of it inside his hat), we should like to have a peep at it, for we have a suspicion that the two hemispheres must be printed, varnished, and glazed, exactly like a pair of globes.”