Plano geográfico que demuestra la antigua situación de México

Attribution:

José Ignacio Heredia y Sarmiento

Date:

1803

Description:

Heredia y Sarmiento’s map—printed alongside his brother’s sermon, which celebrated the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1531—shows the towns and lakes that surrounded México-Tenochtitlan prior to the encounter with Europeans. The map is inverted; the southern part of the Valley of Mexico is at the top.

Bib. Reference:

Sermón panegérico de la gloriosa aparición de nuestra señora de Guadalupe ([México]: Imprenta de doña María Fernández Jáuregui)

Bancroft call number:

F1207.S41 v.2:12

Digital image courtesy of:

The John Carter Brown Library