Antique Map of the Antilles in the Caribbean, '1875'

Name: Antique Map of the Antilles in the Caribbean, '1875'
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12257-44
Price: 560 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1875
Kind: Maps
Size: 47.5 × 61 cm (18.7 × 24 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning, minor wear. Original folding line, blank verso. Please study images carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Central America, Cuba, The West Indies, Florida
Reference: BG-12257-44

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

A map of the West Indies and Central America, titled "Carte des Îles Antilles, des États de l'Amérique-Centrale et du Golfe du Mexique," drawn by A. Brué and revised by E. Levasseur, from Levasseur's Atlas de Géographie Moderne Physique et Politique, published in 1875. The sheet is an engraved map with outline color, in a decorative chain-pattern border, and is numbered "Atlas Universel en 67 feuilles" in the upper margin.

The sheet is centered on the Caribbean: the Gulf of Mexico at the upper left with the tip of Florida, then Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico, and the Lesser Antilles curving down toward the coast of Venezuela. The Central American republics from Guatemala to Costa Rica are tinted in separate colors on the western side, with Yucatán and the Mosquito coast drawn in. A key at the lower left identifies the islands by the nation that held them, using separate colors for the English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish and other possessions. Soundings, rivers, towns and the sea names, including "Mer des Caraïbes," are lettered throughout.

The sheet records the colonial pattern of the islands in the 1870s.

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