Antique 1844 Map of South America by A.K. Johnston, 19th Century

Name: Antique 1844 Map of South America by A.K. Johnston, 19th Century
Brand: W. & A. K. Johnston
SKU: BG-00663
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1844
Maker: W. & A. K. Johnston
Kind: Maps
Size: 65 × 53 cm (25.6 × 20.9 in)
Condition: Good. Some soiling and creasing. Please study image carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: South America
Reference: BG-00663

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

South America in the 1840s, titled "South America", an original engraving with hand outline color from The National Atlas of Historical, Commercial and Political Geography by A.K. Johnston, dated 1844. Alexander Keith Johnston was an Edinburgh geographer and one of the leading atlas makers of the nineteenth century.

The continent is shown whole, with a wide beaded border, the title in a framed panel at the lower right, and a note of the principal sources beneath it. The new republics and Brazil are outlined in soft pink and yellow, rivers and mountain ranges are drawn in fine detail, and the Pacific, the North Atlantic and the South Atlantic are lettered across the open sea. Gray shading around the coasts sets off the land from the water. Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands appear at the southern tip, and a small inset of Atlantic islands sits at the lower right.

The map shows the continent after the wars of independence, with the boundaries of the new states as they stood in the early 1840s.

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