Antique Map of North America and the West Indies by Stieler, circa 1865

Name: Antique Map of North America and the West Indies by Stieler, circa 1865
Brand: Stieler
SKU: BG-03459
Price: 135 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1865
Maker: Stieler
Kind: Maps
Size: 24 × 31 cm (9.4 × 12.2 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning, please study images carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: The West Indies
Reference: BG-03459

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

North America and the West Indies on a German school atlas sheet, "Nord-America und West-Indien," from Stieler's Schul-Atlas, published in Gotha by Justus Perthes, circa 1865. It is an engraved map with outline color, and the title block at lower left is lettered with a legend of colonial powers in German, French, English, Dutch, Danish and Swedish.

The map covers the continent from Alaska and Greenland to the northern coast of South America, with the borders of the United States, the British possessions around Hudson's Bay and Canada, Mexico and the Central American states each outlined in color. The Great Lakes, the Mississippi system and the Gulf of Mexico (the "Meerbusen von Mexico") are drawn in fine detail, and the Caribbean islands are tinted by the colonial power that held them. Longitude is marked in degrees at the border, and a bar scale gives German miles and English miles.

Stieler's school atlas was among the standard reference works of mid-nineteenth century Germany, and Perthes of Gotha was the leading German geographical publisher of the period.

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