Antique South America Map, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Bartholomew, 1884

Name: Antique South America Map, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Bartholomew, 1884
Brand: Adam & Charles Black
SKU: BG-13601-3-36
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: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, South America
Reference: BG-13601-3-36

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

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

The sheet shows the whole continent from the Caribbean Sea to Cape Horn, with the Pacific Ocean on the left and the Atlantic on the right. Brazil, in yellow, dominates the center and east, with the Amazon and its tributaries traced across it. The Andes run down the west coast through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile, and Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay fill the south and the Río de la Plata region. The Falkland Islands are drawn off the southern coast, and the Tropics of Capricorn are marked across the sheet. Cities, ports and rivers are lettered along the coasts and inland.

An atlas sheet of the whole continent shows the political divisions of South America in the 1880s, with Brazil still an empire.

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