Antique Map of North America by A & C. Black, 1870

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Antique Map of North America by A & C. Black, 1870

Name: Antique Map of North America by A & C. Black, 1870
Brand: Adam & Charles Black
SKU: BG-12784-39
Price: 310 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1870
Maker: Adam & Charles Black
Kind: Maps
Size: 60 × 44.5 cm (23.6 × 17.5 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. some foxing, small tear on the folding line, Please study image carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-12784-39

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 on a full-sheet map from Black's General Atlas of the World, published by A. & C. Black in 1870. The map is engraved and colored by country, with the title "North America" lettered at lower left above the scales.

The whole continent is shown in a single view, with Greenland at upper right and the Arctic islands across the top. British America fills the northern half in pink, with Hudson Bay a large pale basin at its center, and the United States forms a broad yellow band across the middle, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with the Great Lakes on its northern edge. Alaska is drawn at the far upper left, Mexico is tinted green, Central America is shown in orange and pink at lower right, and Cuba, Hispaniola and the other Caribbean islands are included at lower right. Lines of latitude and longitude curve across the oceans.

The map shows the continent as it was drawn only a few years after the United States acquired Alaska and just before the Canadian provinces extended westward to the Pacific.

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