Antique Map of South America by Migeon '1880'

Name: Antique Map of South America by Migeon '1880'
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-11793-41
Price: 150 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1880
Maker: J. Migeon (Artist)
Kind: Maps
Size: 47.5 × 34.5 cm (18.7 × 13.6 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Please study images carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: South America
Reference: BG-11793-41

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 from Migeon's "Amerique Meridionale," a hand-colored map from the Geographie Universelle Atlas-Migeon, published in Paris, dated 1880. The title is lettered across the top margin, and the sheet is engraved with the borders of the countries tinted in color.

The map covers the whole continent from the Caribbean coast of Colombia and Venezuela to Tierra del Fuego, with Brazil in pink dominating the center, Argentina ("Republique Argentine") in blue and Bolivia, Peru, Chile and the Guianas each in their own color. Rivers, particularly the Amazon, and the long ranges of the Andes are traced in fine detail, and the Atlantic and Pacific are lettered across the ocean. A small inset at the lower left shows the Galapagos Islands, and a scale of distances is printed at the lower right.

Two decorative vignettes accompany the map: a tropical waterfall in a forest at the upper right, and a hillside estate with palms and a river below a mountain at the lower right. Migeon's atlas combined clear mid-nineteenth century political geography with small pictorial scenes of this kind.

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