Antique Map of Brazil by Levasseur '1875'

Name: Antique Map of Brazil by Levasseur '1875'
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12257-49
Price: 450 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1875
Kind: Maps
Size: 61 × 56 cm (24 × 22 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning, minor wear. Original folding line, blank verso. Please study images carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Brazil
Reference: BG-12257-49

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

A map of Brazil and the neighboring countries, titled "Carte du Brésil et d'une partie des pays limitrophes," drawn by A. Brué and revised by E. Levasseur, from Levasseur's Atlas de Géographie Moderne Physique et Politique, published in 1875. The sheet is printed from an engraved plate with outline color, in a decorative chain-pattern border.

Brazil fills the sheet with its provinces in pastel pink, yellow, green, blue and orange, the Atlantic coast running down from the Amazon mouth to the River Plate. The rivers are drawn in great detail, the Amazon and its tributaries across the northwest and the São Francisco through the interior. A small fold-out panel is attached at the upper left to carry the western Amazon region and the border with Peru, so that the whole country fits on one sheet. The title block, bottom right, includes a scale bar, and the imprint names Ch. Delagrave at the Institut Géographique de Paris as publisher.

The map shows Brazil in the years of the Empire, with its provinces rather than the later states.

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