Antique Map of South America by Dower, ‘circa 1845’

Name: Antique Map of South America by Dower, ‘circa 1845’
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-03464
Price: 170 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1845
Kind: Maps
Size: 30.5 × 24 cm (12 × 9.4 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning, minor defects. Please study images carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: South America
Reference: BG-03464

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 London atlas sheet by the engraver J. Dower, circa 1845, "Drawn & Engraved by J. Dower, Pentonville" and published in London by Orr & Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row. The title "South America" appears in the lower right with a scale of English statute miles. It is an engraved map with outline color.

The map shows the whole continent, with the borders of Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, the Argentine provinces and Patagonia each tinted in a separate color. Rivers, particularly the Amazon, the Orinoco and the Plata system, and the long chain of the Andes are drawn in fine detail, with the coasts densely lettered with ports and headlands. The Falkland Islands appear at the foot, and South Georgia at the lower right, with the Tropic of Capricorn lettered across the center left.

Atlas sheets of this kind, issued by Orr & Co. and other London houses of the 1840s, showed the new South American republics some decades after the independence of Spain's American colonies.

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