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

Name: Antique Map of South America by A & C. Black, 1870
Brand: Adam & Charles Black
SKU: BG-12784-48
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, Please study image carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: South America
Reference: BG-12784-48

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

South 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 region, with the title "South America" lettered at upper right above the scale bars and the plate number at the edge.

The continent is shown in one view, from the Caribbean coast to Cape Horn. Brazil is a large yellow block across the east, Argentina (La Plata) is shown in orange in the south, and Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia and Venezuela are tinted in pinks and greens down the Pacific side. The Andes are drawn in hachures along the western edge, the Amazon, Orinoco and Plata systems cross the interior, and the Falkland Islands and the islands of the south Atlantic are included at the foot of the sheet. Coastal towns are lettered all around the continent, and the parallels and meridians radiate across the oceans.

The sheet records the continent in 1870, with the Empire of Brazil and the republics of the Pacific coast, and before the late-century boundary settlements.

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