Antique Map of South America by J. Cook (1775)

Name: Antique Map of South America by J. Cook (1775)
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-06847
Price: 660 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1775
Kind: Maps
Size: 47 × 53.5 cm (18.5 × 21.1 in)
Condition: Good. Please study image carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Places: South America
Reference: BG-06847

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

The southern end of South America as charted on Captain Cook's second voyage, an engraved map titled "Kaart van het Zuidlyk Eind van Amerika", dated 1775, from a Dutch edition of the official account of his expedition. The plate is numbered "N. XXIV" in the upper right corner.

The map covers Tierra del Fuego ("Het Vuurland"), the Strait of Magellan, Cape Horn and Patagonia, with Chile at the northwest, and the Falkland Islands ("Falklands Eilanden") at the right. The coasts are drawn with indented bays and offshore islands, and soundings are scattered along the Patagonian shore, while Cook's tracks run through the channels and around the Horn. A compass rose with rhumb lines crosses the sheet, and a small inset at lower right shows the New Year's Isles and the harbor on Staten Land (Staten Island).

The sheet is a sound record of how this extreme corner of the continent was surveyed by the British in the early 1770s, and of the way a Dutch edition reissued the plates for a Dutch reading public.

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