Antique Map of the West Indies in Full Color, 1922

Name: Antique Map of the West Indies in Full Color, 1922
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: PCT-56818
Price: 140 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1922
Kind: Maps
Size: 44.7 × 57.8 cm (17.6 × 22.8 in)
Condition: Good. Given age. Original middle fold, as issued. A small nick and some creasing in the top and lower edges of the middle fold. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study image carefully.
Period: The Twentieth Century
Places: The West Indies
Reference: PCT-56818

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 in a color lithograph map, plate 96 of The Times Atlas, prepared by the Edinburgh Geographical Institute and published by John Bartholomew and Company in 1922. The title "The West Indies" is set across the top, and the plate number appears at the upper right.

The map covers the whole Caribbean Basin, from the coasts of Mexico and Central America at the west to the Lesser Antilles at the east, and from Cuba and the Bahamas south to Venezuela. The land is shown in layered colors that run from green at sea level to brown at the highest elevations, with the sea in pale blue and a small elevation key at the lower left. The Greater Antilles of Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico and Cuba, the Leeward and Windward Islands and part of the Bahama Islands are all named.

Inset maps along the top and bottom show the Panama Canal, Kingston, Havana, Trinidad, Puerto Rico and Jamaica.

Issued only a few years after the canal opened, the map shows the region as a world of shipping lanes, with the canal given its own detailed inset.

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