Antique Map of Virginia, with Inset Map of the Northern Part, 1888

Name: Antique Map of Virginia, with Inset Map of the Northern Part, 1888
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13321-4
Price: 325 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1888
Kind: Maps
Size: 21 × 27 cm (8.3 × 10.6 in)
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. General age-related toning, minor wear. Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: West Virginia
Reference: BG-13321-4

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

West Virginia in a color-printed county map titled "West Virginia", from the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in 1888. The sheet is engraved and printed in color, with each county tinted in pink, yellow, green or gray.

The state is drawn with the Ohio River along its western border against Ohio and Kentucky, the narrow Northern Panhandle stretching up between Ohio and Pennsylvania, and the Allegheny ridges of the eastern counties shaded in hachures against Virginia. Maryland and Pennsylvania lie to the north. County names are lettered large, and county towns and railroads are engraved throughout, with a scale of miles and a key given at the upper left. An inset at the lower right, titled "The Panhandle or Northern Part of West Virginia", reproduces the strip of counties on the same scale as the main map.

The state was admitted in 1863, carved out of Virginia during the Civil War, and this sheet shows it as a settled group of counties a generation later.

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