Antique Map of South America by Tirion, c.1765

Name: Antique Map of South America by Tirion, c.1765
Brand: Thomas Kitchin
SKU: PCT-57984
Price: 390 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1765
Maker: Thomas Kitchin
Kind: Maps
Size: 43 × 55 cm (16.9 × 21.7 in)
Period: Colonial America
Places: South America
Reference: PCT-57984

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

Spanish and Portuguese South America in the 1760s, titled "Kaart van het Onderkoningschap van Peru, zig uitstrekkende over Chili, Paraguay en andere Spaansche Landen, als ook van Brazil en verdere Bezittingen van Portugal in Zuid-Amerika", published in Amsterdam by Isaak Tirion, with the date MDCCLXV (1765) in the cartouche. The sheet is an original copper engraving with hand outline color.

The map covers most of South America south of the Caribbean coast, lacking the northern parts of Venezuela and Colombia. The Viceroyalty of Peru is outlined in green and Brazil in pink, with mountain ranges drawn in hachures and rivers and mission stations lettered across the interior. The long title is set in a pink cartouche at the lower left, and the southern tip of the continent is shown at a larger scale in an inset at the lower right, with the Strait of Magellan and Tierra del Fuego. The Pacific is lettered "De Zuid Zee" at the left, and a double border frames the map in yellow.

Tirion was a leading Amsterdam publisher of atlases and town plans in the middle of the eighteenth century.

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