Antique Map of the West Indies and Central America by W. G. Blackie, 1859

Name: Antique Map of the West Indies and Central America by W. G. Blackie, 1859
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12685-1-77
Price: 235 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1859
Kind: Maps
Size: 37 × 54 cm (14.6 × 21.3 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. some foxing, Please study image carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Central America, The West Indies
Reference: BG-12685-1-77

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 India islands and Central America on a map from The Imperial Atlas of Modern Geography, published by W. G. Blackie in 1859. The sheet is an engraved map with original hand color, titled "The West India Islands and Central America" in the lower left, where a color key lists the European powers holding islands in the Caribbean.

The map spans the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, from the Bahamas and Cuba across Jamaica, Hispaniola and Porto Rico to the chain of the Lesser Antilles, and from Yucatan and the Central American states down to the coast of Venezuela and Colombia at the foot of the sheet. A large inset at upper right shows the island of Jamaica on a larger scale, outlined in pink. The Central American republics are drawn in green outline, and the island groups are tinted by colonial power.

The color key makes the sheet a snapshot of Caribbean colonial ownership in 1859, with British, Spanish, French, Dutch and Danish islands each distinguished.

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