Rare Map of South America of Chili, La Plata, Paraguay, Brazil, Peru, c.1775

Name: Rare Map of South America of Chili, La Plata, Paraguay, Brazil, Peru, c.1775
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-00611
Price: 605 USD
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Date: 1775
Kind: Maps
Size: 35 × 43 cm (13.8 × 16.9 in)
Condition: Good. general age-related toning. Few marginal tears, please study image carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Ecuador, Bolivia & Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, South America
Reference: BG-00611

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 the 1770s, titled "South America agreeable to the most approved Maps and Charts, by Thos. Conder", an original copper engraving by the English engraver Thomas Conder, published in London around 1775. The sheet is uncolored.

The map covers the whole continent and the neighboring seas, with the Pacific labeled "Pacific Ocean or South Sea" and the Atlantic and Southern Oceans lettered across the open water. Colonial divisions are named in large letters, including Terra Firma, Guiana, the Amazons, Brazil, Paraguay, La Plata and Chili, and the coasts are crowded with small place names and capes. The Galápagos Islands appear off the western coast. Scale bars for British statute, French marine and Spanish leagues sit at the lower right, and the title is set in a pictorial cartouche at the lower left showing a figure in native dress with armadillo-like animals at the foot of the frame.

The sheet is a good record of how South America was understood in the late colonial period, before the independence movements redrew the map.

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