Anton ROESSLER. The Latest Map of the State of Texas...1874 The Roots of Texas was published to accompany the

was published to accompany the pictures

View of the Stone Walls

North London

The map’s title explains that Nicolas Sanson set the map to degrees (although the attribution to Sanson is likely a ruse to get around the French privilege of Alexis Hubert Jaillot of Paris)

After his death in 1720

Anton ROESSLER. The Latest Map of the State of Texas...1874 The Roots of Texas was published to accompany theROESSLER, Anton (1826 1893) The Latest Map of the State of Texas Lithograph 1874 40 x 45 sheet, 51 x 57 framed. In 1874 Roessler wrote: "Texas is, or will be, the wealthiest state in the Union, possessing as she does great agricultural capabilities, all the varieties of soils, minerals and useful rocks known to exist in the world." His extraordinarily detailed large scale map was designed to demonstrate the truth of his declaration. After De Cordovas