Interesting Original Antique Map of South America, 1822

Name: Interesting Original Antique Map of South America, 1822
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-00662
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1822
Kind: Maps
Size: 45 × 56.5 cm (17.7 × 22.2 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Stains in upper part of the map, please study image carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: South America
Reference: BG-00662

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 1822, titled "South America", an original engraving with hand color from H.C. Carey's A Complete Historical, Chronological, and Geographical American Atlas, being a Guide to the History of North and South America and the West Indies, to the year 1822. The sheet is numbered "South America No. 46" at the upper right.

The map is hand-colored in bold shades of green, pink, yellow and orange for the new states and the colonial territories, and it shows a very large La Plata province that includes much of Peru and all of present-day Bolivia and Argentina north of Patagonia. The title is set at the lower right, with a scale of miles. Rivers, mountain ranges and coastal places are lettered, and the Tropic of Capricorn is marked. On both sides, printed columns give the situation, boundaries and extent of the continent, its rivers, mountains, population and civil divisions, and a historical sketch.

Carey's atlas was published in Philadelphia and was an early American attempt to give a single reference to the history and geography of the Americas, combining maps with explanatory text on each sheet.

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