Antique Map North America, Texas Republic, Decorative Levasseur Atlas, c.1845
€ 1 250
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1845
Sheet size
36.7 × 51 cm (14.4 × 20.1 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-14277-6
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.
Condition
Good antique condition with age toning and light foxing. Margins generally well preserved. The engraving is crisp, and the original hand coloring remains bright and attractive.
About this sheet
North America in the decorative map "Amérique Septentrionale" by Victor Levasseur, an original steel-engraved map with outline hand color, published in Paris around 1842 to 1845 for the Atlas Universel Illustré. The border was designed by Raymond Bonheur and engraved by Auguste Laguillermie.
The map itself, in the center, shows the continent from Russian America (Alaska) in the northwest to Central America and the West Indies in the south, with the countries in different colors: Canada in pink, the United States in green and Mexico in yellow. Texas is shown as an independent republic, and the Oregon country lies in the northwest. Around it the border is a landscape of the continent: a waterfall and palms at the left, with a snake coiled around a tree, snowy mountains and a macaw at the right, and at the foot a polar bear, a bison, a fox and an alligator. Figures of Native and black laborers stand at the lower left, and in the lower center a reclining allegorical woman holds a cornucopia of fruit beside a large dog. A table of populations by country is set at the left and a column of printed text at the right.
Texas was an independent republic from 1836 until its annexation in 1845.
