Antique Map of Southern Mexico & New Galicia, Janssonius, Amsterdam c.1650

Name: Antique Map of Southern Mexico & New Galicia, Janssonius, Amsterdam c.1650
Brand: Jansson
SKU: BG-14315
Price: 2065 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1650
Maker: Jansson
Kind: Maps
Size: 47.8 × 57.5 cm (18.8 × 22.6 in)
Condition: Good. Good antique condition consistent with age. Original center fold as issued, strengthened and repaired on the verso. Light waterstaining visible in the upper and lower margins, largely confined to the blank paper outside the engraved image.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Mexico
Reference: BG-14315

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

New Spain and New Galicia, an original hand-colored map engraved and published by Johannes Janssonius in Amsterdam around 1650. The title, "Nova Hispania, et Nova Galicia", is lettered in a large cartouche at the upper right. The map is an engraving with hand color.

The sheet covers the central and western part of Mexico, from the Pacific coast to the Gulf side and from the north of New Galicia down toward the southern coast. Mexico City is marked beside its lake at the right of center, with the surrounding provinces, towns, rivers and mountain ranges lettered across the sheet, and the Pacific coast is drawn in detail along the left. Provincial boundaries are picked out in color.

The cartouche is a baroque frame with the royal Spanish arms under a crowned eagle, flanked by two allegorical figures. A sailing ship and a sea monster appear in the Pacific at lower left beside large swash lettering naming the sea, and a decorated cartouche at the lower right holds a legend and scale, with a small putto and animals beside it.

Dutch atlas publishers of the mid-seventeenth century, among them Janssonius and the Blaeu family, issued maps of this kind for sale as part of their atlases.

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