Antique Map of North America by Levasseur, 1875

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Antique Map of North America by Levasseur, 1875

Name: Antique Map of North America by Levasseur, 1875
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12257-41
Price: 430 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1875
Kind: Maps
Size: 47.5 × 61 cm (18.7 × 24 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning, minor wear. Original folding line, blank verso. Please study images carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-12257-41

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.

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About this piece

A general map of North America, titled "Carte générale de l'Amérique Septentrionale," drawn by A. Brué and revised by E. Levasseur, from Levasseur's Atlas de Géographie Moderne Physique et Politique, published in 1875. The sheet is an engraved map with outline color, set within a decorative chain-pattern border and numbered in the corners.

The continent is shown from Alaska and the Arctic archipelago to Central America and the top of South America, with the Pacific labeled "Grand Océan" and the Atlantic "Océan Atlantique." Canada is tinted pink and the United States blue-green, with Mexico in yellow and orange and the small Central American republics in separate colors, while Alaska is set apart in its own tone at the upper left. The Gulf of Mexico, Cuba and the other Antilles are drawn at the lower right, and a legend at the lower left identifies the colors by nation. Rivers, lake systems and the chief towns are lettered, and Greenland appears in the northeast. The title block names Ch. Delagrave of the Institut Géographique de Paris as publisher.

The map offers a continental view of the Americas as French geography taught them in the 1870s.

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