Antique Map with Hand Coloring of the United States and the Caribbean

Name: Antique Map with Hand Coloring of the United States and the Caribbean
Brand: Stieler
SKU: BG-13190-5
Price: 625 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: circa 1879
Maker: Stieler
Kind: Maps
Size: 38.3 × 47.5 cm (15.1 × 18.7 in)
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. General age-related toning. Original folding line. Shows some wear and foxing, blank verso. Few small defects in margins. Please study image carefully.
Places: Mexico, The West Indies
Reference: BG-13190-5

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 United States, Mexico and the Caribbean in one sheet from Stieler's Hand-Atlas, published by Justus Perthes of Gotha, circa 1879. The title across the top reads "Verein-Staaten von Nord-America, Mexico, Yucatan u.a.", and the imprint "Gotha: Justus Perthes" appears at the foot. The engraved sheet carries hand-applied outline color, with the Canadian border in pink.

The map shows the entire United States from the Pacific to the Atlantic, with railroads, rivers, state and territorial boundaries and relief by hachures. It continues south across the Gulf of Mexico ("Golf von Mexico") to cover Mexico, the Yucatan peninsula and the northern edge of Central America, and east to Cuba, the Bahamas and the other Antilles, lettered "Bahama-Inseln" and "Caraibisches Meer". An inset at lower left, titled "Plateau von Mexico", enlarges the country around Mexico City.

For a collector of American cartography, the sheet is a compact European view of the whole United States around 1879, with the western territories still in place and the surrounding Spanish-speaking lands drawn in the same scale.

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