Antique Hand-Colored Map of Chili by Willem Blaeu, 1658

Name: Antique Hand-Colored Map of Chili by Willem Blaeu, 1658
Brand: Blaeu
SKU: BG-02086
Price: 1435 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1658
Maker: Blaeu
Kind: Maps
Technique: Engraved
Size: 55.5 × 66 cm (21.9 × 26 in)
Condition: Good. In good condition with minor wear due to age and handling. Please study images carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Chile
Reference: BG-02086

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

Chile in the seventeenth century, an engraved map published at Amsterdam by Willem Blaeu, dated 1658 in the listing, with hand coloring. The title "Chili" is lettered in a pink and blue strapwork cartouche at upper left, and a second cartouche at upper right holds the scales in Spanish, French and Italian leagues. The publisher's imprint, "Amstelodami Guiljelmus Blaeuw excudit", is in a panel at lower left.

The sheet is turned with north to the left, so that the long strip of coast runs across the page, with the Andes ("Sierra nevada de los Andes") drawn as rows of hachured hills along the top and "Mar de Chili" lettered in the open water. It reaches from Copiapó in the north to the island of Chiloé in the south. Two compass roses with rhumb lines cross the sea, a galleon and two other ships sail the coast, and a pair of sea creatures swim near the shore.

Santiago appears as "S Iago dela Nueva Estremadura", Valparaíso as a river mouth, and Concepción and Valdivia (spelled Baldivia) are marked. Beyond the mountains lies a large unnamed lake, with Mendoza and San Juan in what is now Argentina.

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