Antique Map with Hand Coloring of North America and the West Indies

Name: Antique Map with Hand Coloring of North America and the West Indies
Brand: Stieler
SKU: BG-13190-9
Price: 695 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1879
Maker: Stieler
Kind: Maps
Size: 38.3 × 47.7 cm (15.1 × 18.8 in)
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. General age-related toning. Original folding line. Minor wear, blank verso. Please study images carefully.
Places: Canada, Mexico, The West Indies
Reference: BG-13190-9

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

North America from Stieler's Hand-Atlas, published by Justus Perthes of Gotha in 1879. The sheet is lettered "Nord-America. Entworfen u. gezeichnet von F. von Stülpnagel", is numbered "Stieler's Hand-Atlas No. 79", and carries the imprint "Gotha: Justus Perthes". It is an engraved map with hand-applied outline color.

The map covers the whole continent, from Alaska and the Aleutians in the northwest to Greenland in the northeast, and south through Mexico and Central America to the northern coast of South America. Hudson Bay and the Great Lakes are drawn, the United States and Canada are divided by colored boundary lines, and the West Indies are lettered "West Indien" and "Caraibisches Meer", with the Bahamas to the north. A numbered key at the right lists the New England states and Maryland, and a note at lower right explains the colors used for the European colonies. The scale bar and degree grid sit below the title in the lower left.

The sheet is a good document of how a German atlas drew North America a decade after Alaska passed to the United States.

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