Interesting Antique Map of the Development of the Mapping of the America's, 1841

1841 · Maps

Interesting Antique Map of the Development of the Mapping of the America's, 1841

Name: Interesting Antique Map of the Development of the Mapping of the America's, 1841
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13192-1
Price: 1400 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1841
Kind: Maps
Size: 48 × 59 cm (18.9 × 23.2 in)
Condition: Good
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Reference: BG-13192-1

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

De Ontdekking van Amerika, voorgesteld in eene reeks geschiedkundige kaarten (The Discovery of America, presented in a series of historical maps), an original antique map sheet engraved by D. Veelwaard and dated 1841, from Eschazier's Encyclopedische Atlas ("Dertiende aflevering, linker blad"), published in Amsterdam. The engraved sheet is hand colored in the borders.

Seven small maps share the sheet around an oval title cartouche. Across the top are four panels titled for the first, second, third and fourth voyages of Columbus, each showing the track across the Atlantic and the islands and coasts reached. Below are three larger panels: a voyage around the globe, the rounding of Cape Horn, and, at the lower right, a map of the Americas dated 1841. In the Cape Horn panel California is still drawn as an island. The Atlantic is lettered "Atlantische Oceaan" and the Pacific "Zuidzee of Stille Oceaan."

Taken together, the panels trace how the shape of the New World was gradually drawn, from Columbus's landfall in 1492 to the continents as they were understood in 1841.

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