South America Map with Insets – Nieuwe Hand-Atlas, Noothoven van Goor, 1876

Name: South America Map with Insets – Nieuwe Hand-Atlas, Noothoven van Goor, 1876
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12788-29
Price: 490 USD
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Date: 1876
Kind: Maps
Size: 55 × 44 cm (21.7 × 17.3 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition with moderate age toning and scattered foxing, mostly in the margins. Original center fold as issued. Borders crisp, engraved details strong, and hand-coloring well preserved. No tears or repairs visible.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: South America
Reference: BG-12788-29

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 a single sheet, titled "Zuid-Amerika" and published at Leiden by D. Noothoven van Goor in 1876 for the Nieuwe Hand-Atlas der Aarde. It is an original engraved atlas map with outline hand color.

The continent is shown with its republics in contrasting border colors: Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and the Guianas. Rivers such as the Amazon and Madeira cross the largely empty interior, the Andes are shown in fine hachures along the Pacific coast, and the Pacific and Atlantic are lettered in Dutch ("Groote Oceaan of Stille Zee", "Atlantische Oceaan"). Several insets sit around the main map: a plan of Paramaribo and a map of the Suriname river area at the top and right, an enlarged inset of the bay of Rio de Janeiro at the lower right, a plan of Valparaiso at the lower left, and a map of the Isthmus of Panama at the top. The title cartouche at the lower right carries the imprint.

In 1876 Brazil was still an empire, and the map shows the large frontier regions of Patagonia and the Amazon basin that were not yet precisely surveyed.

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