Antique Map of the United States of North America, c.1882

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Antique Map of the United States of North America, c.1882

Name: Antique Map of the United States of North America, c.1882
Brand: W. & A. K. Johnston
SKU: BG-11823-47
Price: 390 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1882
Maker: W. & A. K. Johnston
Kind: Maps
Size: 61.5 × 49.5 cm (24.2 × 19.5 in)
Condition: Good
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-11823-47

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

United States of North America (Eastern States), an original antique map from The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography by A. K. Johnston, published by W. and A. K. Johnston in 1882. The sheet is a color-printed atlas map with colored outlines marking the states, and the title is set in the lower right, with the cartographer's name and scales beneath it.

The map covers the country east of the Mississippi and a strip beyond, from the Great Lakes and Lake Superior to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, with the Bahamas shown at the foot. State boundaries are tinted in contrasting colors, and rivers, county seats, cities and railroads are lettered in fine detail. The Atlantic coast is drawn from Maine to the Florida Keys, and Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario are clearly rendered. Western Arkansas and Missouri appear at the left edge.

By 1882 the railroad network east of the Mississippi was dense, and the map records the settlement of the Midwest and the South in the years after Reconstruction. The firm of W. and A. K. Johnston of Edinburgh was one of the leading atlas publishers of the period.

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