Antique Map of the Caribbean & Central America – West Indies, 1857

Name: Antique Map of the Caribbean & Central America – West Indies, 1857
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-05552-54
Price: 470 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1857
Kind: Maps
Size: 37.5 × 45.4 cm (14.8 × 17.9 in)
Condition: Good. Very good condition with light age toning. Minor margin wear. Strong plate impression, vibrant original hand-coloring.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Central America, The West Indies
Reference: BG-05552-54

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

The West Indies and Central America in 1857, an original copper engraving with hand-colored outlines, titled "West-Indien und Centro-America, entw. u. gez. von Friedr. v. Stülpnagel. Gotha, bei J. Perthes, 1857." It comes from Adolf Stieler's Hand-Atlas, published by Justus Perthes in Gotha.

The sheet shows the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean from Florida in the north to the coast of Venezuela in the south. Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (lettered "Haiti" and "S. Domingo"), Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and the arc of the Lesser Antilles are drawn with their ports and capes, and Central America is shown from the Yucatán and Honduras to the Isthmus of Panama. Three insets at the upper right show Havana and its harbor, Guadeloupe with Marie-Galante, and Martinique. A key in the title area explains the colors of English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Danish and independent territory, and the sea names are engraved in German.

The sheet shows the region as it stood in the 1850s, with the colonial holdings of several European powers set beside the new republics of the mainland.

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