Antique Hand-Colored Map of North and South America, ca.1765

€ 1 250

Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)

Date: 1765
Sheet size: 40 × 51.3 cm (15.7 × 20.2 in)
Condition: Good
Reference: PCT-57988

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.

About this sheet

Nieuwe Kaart van America, an original antique map of the Western Hemisphere published in Amsterdam by Isaak Tirion, dating from about 1765. The engraved sheet carries original hand coloring in outline, and a small boxed title cartouche at the lower left reads "Nieuwe Kaart van America, uitgegeven te Amsterdam by Isaak Tirion."

The map shows North and South America with the western bulge of Africa and a corner of southwestern Europe at the right edge. The oceans are lettered in Dutch: "De Noorder Ocean" above the Antilles, "De Groote Zuid Zee of Stille Zee" across the Pacific and "De Zuider Ocean" in the south Atlantic. California is drawn as a peninsula, the Great Lakes and the colonial coasts of the east are outlined in color, and the Caribbean islands are named in the Antilles group. Brazil and the Spanish territories are divided by colored lines, and the Amazon and the Rio de la Plata are drawn inland.

Tirion, who set up as a book publisher in Amsterdam in 1725 and issued a series of atlases, based much of his cartography on the earlier maps of Guillaume de l'Isle.