This is one of the earliest detailed maps of the American southwest. It depicts present day New Mexico and Arizona. Albuquerque is identified with ‘Good’ placed next to it. The lower right also shows much of present day West Texas. El Paso is identified as is Presidio. It is from Vander Maelen’s ‘Atlas Universel de Geographie Physique, Statistique et Mineralogique’. The atlas was the first published in lithograph and formed a Sanson-Flamsteed projected globe of 7.75 metres in diameter. This was constructed in the ‘Etablissement Geographique’ in Brussels. A total of 400 maps were produced covering the world on the same scale throughout. Koeman III Vdm 1.