Antique Map of Quebec, with Gaspé Inset, Rand McNally, 1899

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Antique Map of Quebec, with Gaspé Inset, Rand McNally, 1899

Name: Antique Map of Quebec, with Gaspé Inset, Rand McNally, 1899
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12793-2-83
Price: 385 USD
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Date: 1899
Maker: Rand McNally
Kind: Maps
Technique: Lithograph
Color: Printed color
Size: 52 × 69 cm (20.5 × 27.2 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition for its age. Light, even age toning, minor handling wear to the sheet edges and the original central fold as issued. Please review the images for further condition details.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Canada
Reference: BG-12793-2-83

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

An antique map of Quebec from Rand McNally's 1899 indexed atlas, this double-page spread on pages 386 and 387 covers the settled Saint Lawrence valley of the province from Ottawa and the Pontiac district in the west to Quebec City, the Saguenay and Lake Saint John in the east. County and district boundaries, Ottawa, Pontiac, Argenteuil, Terrebonne, Montcalm, Joliette, Berthier, Champlain, Portneuf, Quebec, Montmorency and Charlevoix, are outlined in red, and a dense red-lettered railroad network, numbered to a legend of nearly twenty companies at upper right, radiates from Quebec City and Montreal, among them the Canadian Pacific, the Intercolonial, the Quebec Central and the Quebec and Lake Saint John lines.

Two insets extend the coverage beyond the main frame. At upper left, "North Eastern Portion of Quebec" reaches out to the Gaspe Peninsula, Bonaventure and Chaleurs Bay, Anticosti Island and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, at the same scale as the main map. At lower right, "Western Portion of Quebec, Same Scale as Main Map" carries the Ottawa River valley on to Lake Temiscamingue and the Pontiac district on the Ontario border.

The sheet is left uncolored apart from the red boundary and railroad overlay, with the seigneurial river-lot pattern along the Saint Lawrence, the long narrow farm strips running back from the water, rendered in fine parallel hachure lines. A note at the foot directs the atlas user to the adjoining maps of New Brunswick, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Ontario, a reminder that these plates were designed to be read as a continuous, cross-indexed whole.

Rand McNally grew from a Chicago printing business started in the 1850s by William Rand and joined by Andrew McNally, and by the 1890s it was one of the leading map publishers in the United States. This antique map of Quebec is an original 1899 color lithograph, the outline printed in black with the red printed over it, issued folded through the center and suitable for framing. The color is printed rather than applied by hand.

The sheet is in good condition for its age, with light, even age toning, minor handling wear to the sheet edges and the original central fold as issued. Please review the images for further condition details.

This is an original antique map, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed.

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