Set of 4 Antique Maps of part of the United States of America, c.1874

1874 · Maps

Set of 4 Antique Maps of part of the United States of America, c.1874

Name: Set of 4 Antique Maps of part of the United States of America, c.1874
Brand: Stieler
SKU: BG-13192-11 +3
Price: 1030 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1874
Maker: Stieler
Kind: Maps
Size: 38.5 × 48 cm (15.2 × 18.9 in)
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. General age-related toning. Original folding lines. Minor wear, blank verso. Please study images carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-13192-11 +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

Four sheets of the western and central United States from Stieler's Hand-Atlas, published by Justus Perthes of Gotha around 1874. The set belongs to the atlas's six-sheet series on the United States, and the title block on one sheet reads "Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika in 6 Blättern", credited to A. Petermann. The sheets are engraved maps with fine linework and relief shown by hachures.

Together the four sheets run from the Pacific coast to the Mississippi valley and the Gulf. One covers the Pacific Northwest and the northern Rockies; another the northern plains and upper Midwest, with the Dominion of Canada lettered along the top; the third California and the Southwest, with the key to the map signs at lower left; and the fourth the southern plains, with Texas, Indian Territory and the lower Mississippi states. Rivers, mountain ranges, territorial and state boundaries and the dense network of western routes are all drawn in.

Stieler's Hand-Atlas, issued by Justus Perthes in Gotha, was the leading German general atlas of its day, and these sheets show the American West in the 1870s, when most of it was still organized as territories.

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