1821 · Maps
Scarce Antique Map of South America
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€340 · dollar price at today's exchange rate
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- Date
- 1821
- Kind
- Maps
- Size
- 60 × 44.3 cm (23.6 × 17.4 in)
- Condition
- Good. Wear consistent with age and use. General age-related toning. Original folding line. Minor wear and foxing, blank verso. Please study images carefully.
- Places
- South America
- Reference
- BG-13193-4
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 aftermath of the wars of independence, an original antique map titled "Carte de l'Amerique Meridionale", drawn by Ambroise Tardieu and dated 1821 in the cartouche. It was made for the "Histoire generale des Voyages de Laharpe". The sheet is an engraving with hand-colored outlines.
The continent is shown from the Caribbean Sea to Cape Horn, with the Pacific labeled "Grand Ocean Equinoxial" and "Grand Ocean Austral" and the Atlantic "Ocean Atlantique Equinoxial" and "Ocean Atlantique Austral". Colored outlines mark the great political divisions of the period, including Brazil, Peru, Chile and the River Plate provinces, and the courses of the Amazon, Orinoco and Parana are drawn in careful detail with the mountain chains of the Andes. The names Spanish Guyana and San Juan de Los Llanos appear in the northern part of the continent, in the regions that would become Venezuela and Colombia. The title is set in a flourished cartouche at the upper right.
The map shows the continent in the midst of several decades of revolution, which reshaped its geopolitical landscape and boundaries for generations. Tardieu belonged to a Paris family of engravers and geographers and was geographical engraver to the French government.
