Large Antique Map of Egypt and the Nile Delta by Wyld, 1854
€ 1 150
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1854
Sheet size
58.5 × 80.6 cm (23.0 × 31.7 in)
Reference
PCT-56400
Condition
Very good, given age. Original middle fold, as issued. Contemporary hand coloring. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please review the images for further condition details.
About this sheet
Antique map titled 'Lower Egypt and the adjacent desert, with a part of Palestine to which has been addes the nomenclature of the Roman age by L.S. de la Rochette'. Map of Egypt and the Nile Delta. This map originates from James Wyld's 'A New General Atlas of Modern Geography', published by James Wyld. Geographer to Her Majesty Charing Cross East. 1854.
Artists and Engravers: James Wyld (1812-1887) was a British publisher and cartographer. His greatest geographical achievement was Wyld's Great Globe, exhibited in Leicester Square between 1851 and 1862. The globe, sixty feet high and lighted with gas, was at that point the largest ever constructed. He was geographer to Queen Victoria and H.R.H. Prince Albert.
Condition: Very good, given age. Original middle fold, as issued. Contemporary hand coloring. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study image carefully. Date: 1854 Overall size: 80.6 x 58.5 cm. Image size: 74.4 x 53.8 cm.
