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Date
1859
Sheet size
37 × 27 cm (14.6 × 10.6 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-12685-1-14
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
General age-related toning. some foxing. Please review the images for further condition details.
About this sheet
Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands on a single sheet from The Imperial Atlas of Modern Geography, published by W. G. Blackie in 1859. The engraved map carries delicate hand color in outline, and the sheet bears the imprint of Blackie & Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh and London.
Iceland fills the upper half of the page, with its settlements, fjords, glaciers and the interior lakes and volcanic features lettered across the island. Below, Greenland is drawn as a long strip of the settled southwest coast, with the Danish colonies and mission stations named one after another along the shore from Cape Farewell northward toward Baffin's Bay, and a note about the coast printed in the empty interior. At right, the Faroe Islands (lettered Faer-Oer or Sheep Islands) are shown on a separate panel in orange, and a small reduced outline of Iceland is set into the lower corner as a comparison of size.
The sheet records Greenland as it was known to Europeans in the 1850s, when only the coastal settlements were charted and the ice-covered interior was left blank.
