1882 · Maps
Antique Map of Central America and the West Indies, 1882
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- Date
- 1882
- Maker
- W. & A. K. Johnston
- Kind
- Maps
- Size
- 49.6 × 61.3 cm (19.5 × 24.1 in)
- Condition
- Good
- Period
- The Gilded Age
- Places
- Central America, The West Indies
- Reference
- BG-11823-48
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.
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About this piece
The West Indies and Central America on a map from The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, by Alexander Keith Johnston, published by W. & A.K. Johnston in 1882. The sheet is engraved and lettered "West India Islands and Central America", with the title and scales at upper right.
The map covers the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, with the southern tip of Florida and the Bahama Islands at the top, Cuba and the Greater Antilles across the center, and the Lesser Antilles and the Leeward and Windward Islands curving to the right. Central America fills the left side, from Yucatan and the Mosquito coast down to Panama, and the north coast of Venezuela and Colombia with Lake Maracaibo runs along the foot of the sheet. The political divisions are tinted in color, and the islands, ports and rivers are lettered in detail.
The sheet shows the political divisions of the region as drawn in the early 1880s.