Rare Handcolored Map of Isle de Juan Fernandes 'Robinson Crusoe Island', Chili

Name: Rare Handcolored Map of Isle de Juan Fernandes 'Robinson Crusoe Island', Chili
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12934-1
Price: 470 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1763
Kind: Maps
Size: 22 × 39 cm (8.7 × 15.4 in)
Condition: Fair. Repaired: Thin paper, one small split repaired. Wear consistent with age and use. Age -related toning, original folding lines. Shows wear and soiling. Few small tears, slightly affecting image. Blank verso. Please study images carefully.
Places: Chile
Reference: BG-12934-1

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

Juan Fernandez Island in the South Pacific, now called Robinson Crusoe Island, on an original copper engraved chart with hand color, lettered "Die Insel Iuan Fernandes in der Sudsee", from a German edition of Lord George Anson's Voyage Around the World, published in 1763. The legend below the map gives its position at about 33 degrees 40 minutes south latitude and 110 miles west of the mainland of Chile.

The island is drawn in plan with a rugged, wooded ridge running east to west, tinted green with brown mountains in the center, and a smaller island, labeled "Ziegen Insel" (Goat Island), at the upper right. Bays and anchorages are named along the coast, among them "Cumberlands Bay", and soundings are printed in the sea around it. A large compass rose with a colored star sits at the left, and a double scale of miles runs along the bottom.

The island was home from 1704 to 1709 to the marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk, who in part inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe of 1719, though the novel is set in the Caribbean. The Chilean government renamed it Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966.

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