Antique Map of Mexico and Central America by Johnson '1872'

Name: Antique Map of Mexico and Central America by Johnson '1872'
Brand: A. J. Johnson
SKU: BG-12592-57
Price: 335 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1872
Maker: A. J. Johnson
Kind: Maps
Size: 67 × 46 cm (26.4 × 18.1 in)
Condition: Fair. Large split on folding line. General age-related toning, shows minor wear and creasing. Some soiling. Original folding line. English text on verso. Please study images carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Central America, Mexico
Reference: BG-12592-57

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

Mexico and Central America, two maps on one sheet, an original from Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas of the World, published by A.J. Johnson of New York, dated 1872. The sheet is printed in black with the territories outlined and tinted in pink, green and yellow, within a decorative ruled border.

The upper map is titled "Johnson's Mexico, published by A.J. Johnson, New York." It shows the country from the border with the United States down to Yucatan, with Baja California along the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico to the east. A small inset in the lower left corner is a plan of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. The lower map, titled "Johnson's Central America," shows Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, with the neighboring parts of Belize and Panama. Its inset, in the lower left corner, is a plan of Panama and the isthmus.

Both insets reflect the interest of the 1870s in routes across the narrow land between the oceans, at Tehuantepec and Panama.

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