1859 Antique Arctic Vista: Greenland, Iceland and Faroe Islands, Blackie's Atlas

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1859 Antique Arctic Vista: Greenland, Iceland and Faroe Islands, Blackie's Atlas

Name: 1859 Antique Arctic Vista: Greenland, Iceland and Faroe Islands, Blackie's Atlas
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12685-1-14
Price: 215 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1859
Kind: Maps
Size: 37 × 27 cm (14.6 × 10.6 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. some foxing, Please study image carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Reference: BG-12685-1-14

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands on a single sheet from The Imperial Atlas of Modern Geography, published by W. G. Blackie in 1859. The engraved map carries delicate hand color in outline, and the sheet bears the imprint of Blackie & Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh and London.

Iceland fills the upper half of the page, with its settlements, fjords, glaciers and the interior lakes and volcanic features lettered across the island. Below, Greenland is drawn as a long strip of the settled southwest coast, with the Danish colonies and mission stations named one after another along the shore from Cape Farewell northward toward Baffin's Bay, and a note about the coast printed in the empty interior. At right, the Faroe Islands (lettered Faer-Oer or Sheep Islands) are shown on a separate panel in orange, and a small reduced outline of Iceland is set into the lower corner as a comparison of size.

The sheet records Greenland as it was known to Europeans in the 1850s, when only the coastal settlements were charted and the ice-covered interior was left blank.

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