Antique Map of Dutch Colonies in the Caribbean & Suriname by Dornseiffen, 1884

Name: Antique Map of Dutch Colonies in the Caribbean & Suriname by Dornseiffen, 1884
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14172-15
Price: 435 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1884
Kind: Maps
Size: 39 × 48.5 cm (15.4 × 19.1 in)
Condition: Good. Condition report: Good antique condition. Light general age toning consistent with 19th-century paper. Scattered foxing visible, mainly in the open sea areas and margins. Clear plate impressions present. Full margins preserved.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: The Guianas, The West Indies
Reference: BG-14172-15

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 Dutch possessions in America, an original lithograph map sheet titled "De Nederlandsche Bezittingen in Amerika", designed by J. Dornseiffen and published in Amsterdam by Seyffardt's Boekhandel in 1884. The map is printed in outline with hand color along the boundaries and coasts.

The sheet is arranged as four coordinated maps. The large panel at the lower left, "De Kolonie Suriname", shows the colony from the Atlantic coast inland, with its rivers, plantations and settlements along the coast, the boundaries with British and French Guiana, and a block of explanatory text. A tall panel at the right gives "De Rivier de Suriname", a strip map of the river from its mouth up into the interior. Two smaller panels across the top show "De Curacaosche Eilanden" (Curacao, Aruba and Bonaire, off the Venezuelan coast) and "Bezittingen in de Kleine Antillen" (St. Martin, Saba, St. Eustatius and nearby islands), each with its own scale and latitude and longitude markings.

In 1884 Suriname and the Dutch Caribbean islands were the Netherlands' remaining colonies in the Western Hemisphere, and the sheet brings them together in one view.

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