1882 Blackie Atlas Maps: Atlantic States and Mississippi Valley Compilation

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1882 Blackie Atlas Maps: Atlantic States and Mississippi Valley Compilation

Name: 1882 Blackie Atlas Maps: Atlantic States and Mississippi Valley Compilation
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13601-2-62, -63
Price: 405 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1882
Kind: Maps
Size: 38 × 28 cm (15 × 11 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition for their age. The paper has aged to a warm, creamy tone typical of late 19th-century publications. Edges show minor wear, consistent with use and age and printed text and lines remain crisp and clear. Folding lines as issued.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-13601-2-62, -63

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

The eastern United States in two sheets, from an 1882 atlas published by Blackie & Son of Glasgow, Edinburgh and London. The pair is titled "The United States of North America: Atlantic States and Valley of the Mississippi (in two sheets)". The color is applied in outline by region, in pink, yellow, green and buff.

The right-hand sheet, headed "Atlantic States", covers the coast from New England to Florida, with the Appalachians shown in hachures and the Great Lakes at the top left. An inset of Florida occupies the lower right corner. The left-hand sheet, headed "The United States, Valley of the Mississippi", reaches from the Mississippi valley west across the plains. Its state and territorial boundaries are drawn in color, and the dense net of railroads covers the Midwest and the South. The Indian Territory appears in red on the left edge, and the lower course of the Mississippi reaches the Gulf of Mexico at the bottom of the sheet.

The maps show the country as it stood in 1882, with railroads already drawn across the Midwest and the plains states.

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