Antique Map North America, Texas Republic, Decorative Levasseur Atlas, c.1845

Name: Antique Map North America, Texas Republic, Decorative Levasseur Atlas, c.1845
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14277-6
Price: 1400 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1845
Kind: Maps
Size: 36.7 × 51 cm (14.4 × 20.1 in)
Condition: Good. Good antique condition with age toning and light foxing. Margins generally well preserved. The engraving is crisp, and the original hand coloring remains bright and attractive.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Canada, Mexico, Texas
Reference: BG-14277-6

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

North America in the decorative map "Amérique Septentrionale" by Victor Levasseur, an original steel-engraved map with outline hand color, published in Paris around 1842 to 1845 for the Atlas Universel Illustré. The border was designed by Raymond Bonheur and engraved by Auguste Laguillermie.

The map itself, in the center, shows the continent from Russian America (Alaska) in the northwest to Central America and the West Indies in the south, with the countries in different colors: Canada in pink, the United States in green and Mexico in yellow. Texas is shown as an independent republic, and the Oregon country lies in the northwest. Around it the border is a landscape of the continent: a waterfall and palms at the left, with a snake coiled around a tree, snowy mountains and a macaw at the right, and at the foot a polar bear, a bison, a fox and an alligator. Figures of Native and black laborers stand at the lower left, and in the lower center a reclining allegorical woman holds a cornucopia of fruit beside a large dog. A table of populations by country is set at the left and a column of printed text at the right.

Texas was an independent republic from 1836 until its annexation in 1845.

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