Decorative Dutch Antique Map of North and South America, 1841

Name: Decorative Dutch Antique Map of North and South America, 1841
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: PCT-58772
Price: 390 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1841
Kind: Maps
Size: 15.9 × 19.3 cm (6.3 × 7.6 in)
Condition: Good
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: South America
Reference: PCT-58772

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

Amerika, a small Dutch map of the two Americas, engraved by Daniel Veelwaard Junior for N. G. van Kampen's De Aarde, beschouwd in haren Natuurlijken Toestand en Verdeeling and published by Erven F. Bohn in Haarlem in 1841. The sheet has original hand coloring, and the title "Amerika" appears in an oval cartouche at the lower right.

North America is washed in green, South America in pink, Greenland in orange, and the neighboring edges of Europe and Africa in green and yellow. The meridians curve across the sheet in a conical grid, and the oceans are lettered in Dutch as "Stille Zee," "Atlantische Zee" and "Zuid Zee." Hudson Bay, Labrador and the Gulf of Mexico appear in the north, with the Caribbean islands strung between the continents. Louisiana, New Mexico, the colonial names of the eastern seaboard and the Spanish and Portuguese territories of the south are lettered in small italics. The map is framed with a red and yellow border.

Veelwaard Junior (1796 to 1868) was a Dutch map engraver, and a pupil of his father. The map is a compact general view of the Americas as taught to Dutch readers of the 1840s.

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