Antique North America Map, Canada, USA, Mexico, Bartholomew, 1884

Name: Antique North America Map, Canada, USA, Mexico, Bartholomew, 1884
Brand: Adam & Charles Black
SKU: BG-13601-3-31
Price: 440 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1884
Maker: Adam & Charles Black
Kind: Maps
Size: 61.2 × 45.3 cm (24.1 × 17.8 in)
Condition: Good. Good antique condition with age-related toning and light wear consistent with age. Original center fold as issued. Please study the photographs carefully for the most accurate impression of condition.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Canada, Mexico
Reference: BG-13601-3-31

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 in 1884, an original engraved map titled "North America", prepared by the Scottish cartographer John Bartholomew and published in Edinburgh by A. & C. Black, as part of the new and revised edition of Black's General Atlas of the World. The countries are colored by hand in soft pink, yellow, green and orange.

The map shows the whole continent from Alaska and the Arctic archipelago to the Isthmus of Central America. The "Dominion of Canada" fills the north in pink, with Hudson Bay at its center and Newfoundland and Labrador to the east, and Greenland is shown in green at the upper right. The United States is lettered in yellow, with its state and territorial boundaries drawn across the West, and Mexico lies below in green, with the Central American republics at the southeast. Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and the other West Indies are drawn in the Caribbean Sea, and a corner of South America appears at the lower right.

The title "Dominion of Canada" dates the sheet to the years after Confederation in 1867, and the western United States appears divided into the states and territories of the early 1880s.

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