Old Original Antique German Map of North America, ca.1870

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Old Original Antique German Map of North America, ca.1870

Name: Old Original Antique German Map of North America, ca.1870
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-06670-3
Price: 550 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1870
Kind: Maps
Size: 35.1 × 45 cm (13.8 × 17.7 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Split on folding line, please study image carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-06670-3

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

North America in the later nineteenth century, titled "Nord-America", a lithographed map with outline color from H. Kiepert's Kleiner Atlas der Neueren Geographie für Schule und Haus, printed in Berlin by Dietrich Reimer around 1870. Heinrich Kiepert (1818 to 1899) was one of the leading German geographers of his day.

The map is drawn on a curved projection and covers the whole continent, from the Arctic islands and Greenland down through Mexico and Central America to the Caribbean. A color key in the lower left separates the "Vereinigte Staaten" (United States), the "Mexicanische Republik" and the "Centralamericanischen Staaten", with a scale line beneath. A numbered list at the right gives the names of the United States, keyed to numerals on the map, and the oceans are lettered in German, "Grosser oder Stiller Ocean" and "Atlantischer Ocean". Rivers, lakes and mountain systems are shown with fine shading, and the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico are clearly drawn.

As a school atlas sheet it shows the United States in its continental extent, with territories in the West still left largely open.

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