Antique Map of South America by Scherer, c.1700

Name: Antique Map of South America by Scherer, c.1700
Brand: Thomas Kitchin
SKU: PCT-62012
Price: 170 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1700
Maker: Thomas Kitchin
Kind: Maps
Size: 27 × 21 cm (10.6 × 8.3 in)
Condition: Good. Given age. Minor crease right edge. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study image carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Places: South America
Reference: PCT-62012

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

Two maps of part of South America on one sheet, plate "Fol. KK", from Heinrich Scherer's Atlas Novus, printed around 1700. The sheet is an original copper engraving, uncolored, with the heading "Pars Americae Australis" on a scroll banner at the left.

Each map, marked "Fig. I" and "Fig. II", shows nearly the same area, the northern and central part of South America with the Caribbean islands at the top (Cuba, Hispaniola and the Lesser Antilles), the coast of Africa at the right edge, and the Equator and the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn marked across the sheet. The Amazon is shown as the dominant river, with a large interior lake, and rivers, lakes and mountain ranges differ slightly between the two versions. Major cities including Lima, Cuzco and Potosí are marked, as is the mythical El Dorado. A longitude scale of "Gr. Aequatorii" runs along the bottom.

Heinrich Scherer (1628 to 1704) was a Jesuit professor at Dillingen and later tutor to the princes of Bavaria. His Atlas Novus was published in Munich between 1702 and 1710 and reissued from 1730.

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