Antique Map of the Northern Part of South America by Fullarton, 1855

€ 130

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

Date: 1855
Sheet size: 47 × 57.5 cm (18.5 × 22.6 in)
Condition: Good
Reference: BG-00635

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

Northern South America in the middle of the nineteenth century, an original engraved map from the Royal Illustrated Atlas, engraved by J. Bartholomew and published by Fullarton and Company in 1855. The sheet carries the title "South American States, New Granada & Venezuela", and the borders are tinted in pale outline color.

The map spreads across the Caribbean coast of the continent, from the Pacific shore of New Granada at lower left to the eastern edge of Venezuela. Mountain ranges are drawn in dense hachures, and the rivers of the interior, the lakes along the coast and the island groups in the Caribbean Sea are all named. The empty plains of the interior are left lightly filled, and a small inset map of the Isthmus of Panama sits in the upper left corner.

The Royal Illustrated Atlas, issued by Fullarton in Edinburgh and London, offered large, finely engraved maps of the continents and their states, and this sheet is a good example of the Victorian treatment of the northern Andes, where New Granada and Venezuela then stood as separate republics.