Set of 2 Antique Maps of the United States by W. G. Blackie, 1859

Name: Set of 2 Antique Maps of the United States by W. G. Blackie, 1859
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12685-1-72,73
Price: 660 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1859
Kind: Maps
Size: 37 × 54 cm (14.6 × 21.3 in)
Condition: Good. Minor structural damages. General age-related toning. some foxing, small tears on the folding line, Please study image carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Florida, Mississippi
Reference: BG-12685-1-72,73

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

A two-sheet map of the eastern United States titled "The United States of North America, Atlantic States and Valley of the Mississippi", from The Imperial Atlas of Modern Geography, published by W. G. Blackie in 1859. The two sheets are engraved maps with original hand color, each state outlined in its own tint, and are meant to be read side by side.

The right-hand sheet carries the title and shows the Atlantic states from Maine down to Florida, with New England, New York, Pennsylvania, the Virginias and the Carolinas along the coast and the Appalachian ranges drawn in hachures. A large inset at lower right shows the whole of Florida. The left-hand sheet continues the map westward into the valley of the Mississippi: Wisconsin and Iowa at the top, then Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama, with the Great Lakes and the Gulf coast at the edges and part of the western plains on the left.

Drawn in 1859, the sheets show the country on the eve of the Civil War, with the states fully colored and the western territories left open at the margin.

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