Venezuela, New Granada and Ecuador, Antique Map, Northern South America, 1860

Name: Venezuela, New Granada and Ecuador, Antique Map, Northern South America, 1860
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13383-4
Price: 380 USD
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Date: 1860
Kind: Maps
Size: 37 × 54 cm (14.6 × 21.3 in)
Condition: Good. Good antique condition. Light overall age toning consistent with age. Minor scattered foxing and light handling marks, mainly in the margins. Original central fold as issued. No major tears or losses.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Ecuador, Bolivia & Paraguay, Colombia & Venezuela, South America
Reference: BG-13383-4

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

Northern South America in an original steel-engraved atlas map titled "Venezuela, New Granada and Ecuador," from The Imperial Atlas of Modern Geography, published by W. G. Blackie around 1860. The sheet has original outline hand color in orange, blue, green and other tints marking the national boundaries.

The map runs from the Caribbean Sea at the top to the upper Amazon basin at the foot, with the Pacific coast at the left. New Granada, the name then borne by present-day Colombia, spreads across the center, with the Isthmus of Panama curving out at its upper left; Venezuela fills the upper right, and Ecuador lies at the lower left, with Brazil lettered along the lower right. The Andes divide into their ranges through Colombia and Ecuador and are engraved in dense hachures, and the rivers of the Orinoco and Magdalena systems are traced through the interior, with towns, routes and coastal names crowded along the Caribbean shore. The title and scales are placed in the lower right corner.

The sheet is a mid-century record of a region in transition: it shows New Granada, Venezuela and Ecuador as separate states, as they were in 1860, before Colombia took its later name.

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