Antique Map of Kentucky

Name: Antique Map of Kentucky
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13321-3
Price: 325 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1882
Kind: Maps
Size: 21 × 27 cm (8.3 × 10.6 in)
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. General age-related toning, minor wear. Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Places: Kentucky
Reference: BG-13321-3

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

Kentucky in a color-printed county map titled "Kentucky", from the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in 1882. The sheet is engraved and printed in color, with the many small counties tinted in pink, yellow, green and gray.

The state is drawn with the Ohio River following its long northern boundary against Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and the Mississippi forming the far western tip. Tennessee lies along the southern edge, Virginia and West Virginia on the east, and North Carolina is named at the lower right. County names and county seats are lettered through the interior, and railroads are drawn as fine lines across the state and into the neighboring states. A scale of statute miles and a key to county towns and railroads are given in the upper left corner. The volume and plate numbers are printed at the top, and the imprint appears at the lower right.

The map shows Kentucky with its unusually large number of counties, which are packed especially closely in the east, in the years of the railroad expansion that followed the Civil War.

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