Antique Map of North and South America by Walker, 1828

Name: Antique Map of North and South America by Walker, 1828
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-00657
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1828
Kind: Maps
Size: 56 × 45 cm (22 × 17.7 in)
Condition: Fair. Several repairs mainly on folding line and bottom of the map. Age-related toning, please study image carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Canada, Mexico, South America
Reference: BG-00657

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 and South America together on a single sheet, titled "Geographical, Historical, and Statistical Map of America", an original engraving with hand color, engraved by J. Walker and published in London by J. Barfield in 1828. The sheet is numbered "America No. 70" at the upper right.

Two maps sit side by side in the upper half, North America at the left and South America at the right, each with its own title cartouche. Colonial and national territories are tinted in pink, green and yellow, and the West Indies are shown in the Atlantic. Below the maps, a ruled table sets out the "General Divisions of North America" and "General Divisions of South America", giving the countries and their dependencies, and a further band names the West India islands under British, French, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish and independent rule. Columns of text fill the left and right margins and the foot of the sheet, with headings such as "Discovery of America by Columbus", "Conquest of Mexico by Cortez", "Conquest of Peru by Pizarro" and "The United States".

The sheet works as a compact illustrated summary of the Americas as understood in the late 1820s.

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