Antique Map of the Antilles and Central America – 1872

Name: Antique Map of the Antilles and Central America – 1872
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13039-28
Price: 145 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1872
Kind: Maps
Size: 25 × 33 cm (9.8 × 13 in)
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Central America, The West Indies
Reference: BG-13039-28

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

Antilles et Amérique Centrale, a map of the Caribbean and Central America "dressée sous la direction de E. Cortambert, 1872", published in Paris by L. Hachette & Cie. The sheet is a color-printed engraving, lettered "Gravé par Erhard" with the engraver's address, and a lithographer's imprint at the foot.

The map runs from the Gulf of Mexico and Florida in the north to Venezuela in the south, and from Yucatán and Guatemala across to the Lesser Antilles. Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico are shown in relief shading, and the Bahamas are labeled as the "Iles Lucayes". Three insets at the upper right give larger plans of Guadeloupe, Saint Martin and Martinique. A legend at the lower left uses color to mark the Spanish, English, French, Danish and Dutch possessions.

The plate carries a plate number at the upper right, showing that it comes from a bound geography atlas. The colored outlines make it a useful record of the colonial divisions of the Caribbean in the early 1870s.

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