Antique Virginia Map c.1888 – Railroads, Towns & The Old Dominion

Name: Antique Virginia Map c.1888 – Railroads, Towns & The Old Dominion
Brand: Rand McNally
SKU: BG-12794-23
Price: 515 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1888
Maker: Rand McNally
Kind: Maps
Size: 36 × 52.5 cm (14.2 × 20.7 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition with light age toning and mild handling wear. Original center fold as issued with faint darkening along the crease. Plate mark visible. Strong, clear impression with fine engraved detail.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Virginia
Reference: BG-12794-23

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

Virginia in c.1888, an original map by Rand, McNally & Co. printed in black on toned paper with railroad lines overprinted in red. The running head "Rand, McNally & Co.'s Virginia" appears across the top between atlas page numbers 184 and 185, and the title "Virginia" is lettered boldly at the upper left.

The whole state is shown, from the mountain counties in the southwest through the Shenandoah valley to the tidewater and the Chesapeake Bay at the right. The ridges of the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains are hachured across the west, and the rivers flow east to the bay. Washington is marked at the head of the Potomac near the northern border, and the Delmarva peninsula appears at the far right. West Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky are lettered at the borders.

The sheet shows the state in the decades after the Civil War, when the railroads running along the valleys and to the ports of the Chesapeake Bay were rebuilding its trade.

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