Antique Map of Baja California and parts of Alta California, Arizona and Sonora

Name: Antique Map of Baja California and parts of Alta California, Arizona and Sonora
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13557
Price: 1110 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1765
Kind: Maps
Size: 35.8 × 38 cm (14.1 × 15 in)
Condition: Good. Replacements made: Right margin partly extended. General age-related toning. Original folding lines. Right margin partly extended. Minor wear and soiling, blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Places: Arizona, California
Reference: BG-13557

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

Baja California and the Gulf of California drawn by Isaak Tirion of Amsterdam and dated 1765 (MDCCLXV) in the title cartouche: "Kaart van het Westelyk Gedeelte van Nieuw Mexico en van California, volgens de laatste Ontdekkingen der Jezuiten en anderen, te Amsterdam by Isaak Tirion". It is an original copper engraving with outline hand color.

California is shown as a long peninsula, with the Gulf of California running up to the mouth of the Colorado and the Gila River. Mission and village names are lettered along both shores, and the Pacific coast is marked "De Groote Zuid Zee" and "Onbekende Landen" (unknown lands). Across the gulf the map names the Pimeria, Sonora and Sinaloa provinces, along with the Apache, Papago, Yuma and Cocomaricopa peoples. The offshore islands are tinted in bright colors, and a scale of miles is set at the top.

The map draws in large part on the work of Ferdinando Consag and records the Jesuit-era missions of Baja California and Sonora. It was issued four years before the first Spanish mission in Alta California, at San Diego, and before the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1768, which makes it one of the last mid-eighteenth-century maps to focus on the region.

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