Antique Map of America with California as an Island by Homann '1710'

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Antique Map of America with California as an Island by Homann '1710'

Name: Antique Map of America with California as an Island by Homann '1710'
Brand: Homann Heirs
SKU: BG-12815
Price: 2800 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1710
Maker: Homann Heirs
Kind: Maps
Size: 56 × 66 cm (22 × 26 in)
Condition: Good. Repaired: Repair on folding line. General age-related toning. Professionally restored on folding line and plate marks. Minor wear, blank verso. Please study images carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Reference: BG-12815

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 Americas on one sheet, titled "Totius Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis," an original map by Johann Baptist Homann of Nuremberg, dated 1710. The copper engraving carries outline color in green, yellow, pink and orange, with a colored border.

North and South America are drawn together across the Atlantic and Pacific. California is shown as an island, cut off from the mainland by a narrow sea, and the Straits of Anian are drawn to the north of it. The interior of North America shows the Great Lakes and the course of the Mississippi, while South America is divided into its Spanish and Portuguese territories. The Pacific is scattered with islands, and tropics and the equator are drawn as lines across the sheet. Two decorative cartouches frame the sheet: a large title cartouche at the lower left with figures and a view of a landscape, and a text cartouche at the upper left, topped by allegorical figures.

The island California was a cartographic convention that persisted through much of the seventeenth century and into the early eighteenth.

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