1916 · Maps
Antique Maps of North America, Relief, Geology and Plants, Set of Three, 1916
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- Date
- 1916
- Kind
- Maps
- Technique
- Chromolithograph
- Color
- Printed color
- Size
- 30 × 24.5 cm (11.8 × 9.6 in)
- Condition
- Good. Light uneven toning, browner toward the edges. Handling soiling along the edges of all three sheets. Loss or wear at the corners of two of the three sheets. Shallow nicks along an edge of two of the three sheets. Center folds, as issued.
- Period
- The Twentieth Century
- Reference
- BG-06668-35
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.
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About this piece
A set of three original antique thematic maps from Meyers Physikalischer Handatlas. They are three original sheets sold together, and the set is never split. The three sheets are North America, physical map of rivers and mountain systems; North America, geological map after Bailey Willis and George Stose; North America, vegetation map after Harshberger and Sargent. Each was printed in color by the Bibliographisches Institut in Leipzig and Vienna in 1916.
All three maps come from the same atlas, Meyers Physikalischer Handatlas, fifty one maps of oceanography, morphology, geology, climatology, plant and animal geography and ethnology, published by the Bibliographisches Institut in Leipzig and Vienna in 1916. They share a format, a typeface and a palette, which is the whole reason they work on a wall together: hung in a row or in a block they read as one considered group rather than as three unrelated prints. The atlas was the physical geography companion to Meyers Grosses Konversations-Lexikon and was compiled from the leading specialist sources of the day, including the Berghaus physical atlas, Alexander Supan, Julius Hann and Oscar Drude.
Thematic maps take one idea and lay it across a whole region in color, and a set of them shows the same ground answering three different questions at once. That is a more interesting wall than three views of the same thing. Framed in matching plain dark moldings with wide off white mats, a set like this suits a study, a library, a hallway, a boardroom or a stair wall, and because the sheets are the same size the framing cost is the same for each one.
Light uneven toning, browner toward the edges. Handling soiling along the edges of all three sheets. Loss or wear at the corners of two of the three sheets. Shallow nicks along an edge of two of the three sheets. Center folds, as issued.
These are original antique maps, not modern reproductions. This item is sold unframed.
