Antique Map the Windward or South Caribbean Islands and Guiana, 1859

Name: Antique Map the Windward or South Caribbean Islands and Guiana, 1859
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12685-1-82
Price: 290 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: The Guianas, The West Indies
Reference: BG-12685-1-82

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 Windward or South Caribbean Islands together with British, Dutch and French Guiana, an original antique map from The Imperial Atlas of Modern Geography, published by W. G. Blackie in 1859. The engraved sheet carries colored boundary lines.

Two maps share the sheet. On the left, the southern Lesser Antilles are strung out across the "North Atlantic Ocean" and the "Caribbean Sea," from Martinique at the top down through St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Barbados and Grenada, with Trinidad and the Gulf of Paria inset at the lower left. Coastal towns, bays and anchorages are lettered around each island, and a key distinguishes British from French possessions. The title "The Windward or South Caribbean Islands" sits at the lower right of this half.

On the right, the Guiana coast of South America is shown with the heading "British, Dutch, and French Guiana." Rivers, mountain ranges and the colored territorial boundaries run inland from the Atlantic shore toward the Brazilian frontier.

The Windward Islands are the southern, generally larger group of the Lesser Antilles, lying south of the Leeward Islands. The name was also applied to a British colony that existed from 1833 to 1960.

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