Central America Map – Johnson, Hand-Colored with Insets, c.1864

Name: Central America Map – Johnson, Hand-Colored with Insets, c.1864
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13952-41
Price: 360 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1864
Kind: Maps
Size: 35.7 × 45.7 cm (14.1 × 18 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition. Strong impression with bright original hand coloring. Light general age toning and a few minor marginal spots or handling marks, typical for antique atlas maps. No tears or repairs visible. Wide margins and plate mark intact.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Central America, Jamaica
Reference: BG-13952-41

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

Central America, "Johnson's Central America by Johnson and Ward," a hand-colored steel-engraved map published in New York around 1864. The title is lettered at the top of the sheet within the publisher's ornamental border.

The countries from Guatemala to Panama are tinted in pink and green, with Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica in the center and the coast of Mexico at the upper left. The Caribbean and the Pacific are named in large letters, and a small inset in the upper right shows Jamaica. Along the lower edge four insets show the routes across the isthmus: the Isthmus of Panama with its railroad, the Nicaragua Route across Lake Nicaragua and the San Juan River, the harbor of San Juan de Nicaragua, and small town plans of Aspinwall City and Panama at the right.

The insets reflect what the map was made for. Before the transcontinental railroad, travelers and goods between New York and California crossed Panama or Nicaragua, and the American publisher gave these routes more space than the countries around them.

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