Antique Map of Brazil with Original Outline Hand-Coloring, c.1844

Name: Antique Map of Brazil with Original Outline Hand-Colouring, c.1844
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-07960
Price: 270 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1844
Kind: Maps
Size: 41 × 30 cm (16.1 × 11.8 in)
Condition: Good
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Brazil
Reference: BG-07960

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

Brazil and neighboring South America, an original antique map engraved by S. Hall and issued around 1844. The sheet is an engraving with colored outlines, and the plate title "BRAZIL" is set in a ruled box at the lower right, with an English-miles scale beneath it. Hall's engraver credit is lettered at the foot of the sheet.

The map shows the whole of Brazil from the Guiana coast at the top to the River Plate at the bottom, with the Amazon and its tributaries and the great rivers of the interior drawn in fine detail. Mountain ranges are hachured, and the long Atlantic coast is crowded with lettered ports and capes. Colored lines mark the borders with the Guianas, "Upper Peru or Bolivia," "La Plata" and the neighboring territories, and the Tropic of Capricorn crosses the lower half. Latitude and longitude are numbered in the neat double border.

The map dates from the period of the Empire of Brazil, which became independent from Portugal in 1822, and it records the settlement pattern of the time: dense place names along the coast and in the south, and a nearly empty interior.

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