Antique Map of Part of the United States Including Lower California & Arizona

Name: Antique Map of Part of the United States Including Lower California & Arizona
Brand: Stieler
SKU: BG-13190-12
Price: 490 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: circa 1879
Maker: Stieler
Kind: Maps
Size: 38.3 × 47.6 cm (15.1 × 18.7 in)
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. General age-related toning, original folding line. Minor wear, blank verso. Please study images carefully.
Places: Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico
Reference: BG-13190-12

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

Western United States and northern Mexico, a sheet from Stieler's Hand-Atlas published by Justus Perthes of Gotha, circa 1879. The sheet is one of a six-sheet series on the United States, and its title block reads "Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika in 6 Blättern im Maasstabe von 1:3,700000. Von A. Petermann", with the scale and a key to boundaries and signs beneath. The imprint "Gotha: Justus Perthes" runs along the bottom margin.

The map covers California and Lower California, with the Pacific lettered "Grosser Ocean" and the Gulf of California to the east. Arizona and New Mexico fill the center of the sheet, Colorado appears at the top, and the northern states of Mexico run along the lower edge. Relief is shown by hachures with soft green and ochre tinting on the uplands, and the rivers, trails, boundary lines and settlements of the Southwest are drawn in fine detail.

The date places the sheet shortly after the creation of Arizona Territory and before either Arizona or New Mexico was a state.

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