LEVASSEUR, Victor (1800-70). Amérique Septentrionale, Paris, [c.1845], hand-coloured engraved map of north America, pictorial borders, 290 x 430mm., framed and glazed. A record of the short-lived Republic of Texas which existed between 1836 and 1846.

LEVASSEUR, Victor (1800-70).  Amérique Septentrionale. Paris: chez A. Combette, [c.1845]. Hand-coloured engraved map of north America, with wide elaborate pictorial borders by Raimond Bonheur fully coloured by hand, national and state borders hand-coloured in outline, including Texas boldly outlined in dark blue (a few spots), 290 x 430mm., framed and glazed. The elaborate decorative borders feature indigenous peoples and flora and fauna including, on the right hand side, a great eagle, a polar bear, an alligator, a bison, and an elk, and, on the left hand side, a European settler bargaining with a native, a pyramid behind, the whole backed by a dramatic landscape of mountains and waterfalls, with an allegorical reclining classical figure of a woman at the base, with a St. Bernard and a bale of cotton. A small table gives the populations of the various countries included in the map, with the United States (i.e. "Etats-Unis") having 19,000,000 and Texas 200,000. The map is important as a record of the short-lived independent Republic of Texas which existed between 1836 and 1846, whereupon it formally ceded to the United States and became the 28th state of the union. Phillips A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress 3003.