Antique Brazil Map, Uruguay, Paraguay & Guiana, Bartholomew, 1884
€ 340
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1884
Sheet size
45.3 × 32.1 cm (17.8 × 12.6 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-13601-3-39
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-related toning and light wear consistent with age. Original center fold as issued. Please study the photographs carefully for the most accurate impression of condition.
About this sheet
Brazil and its neighbors in 1884, an original engraved map titled "Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay & Guayana", prepared by the Scottish cartographer John Bartholomew and published in Edinburgh by A. & C. Black in the new and revised edition of Black's General Atlas of the World. The sheet is numbered 51 at the upper right, and the boundaries are colored by hand.
The map covers the Atlantic side of South America from the Guianas in the north, drawn in separate colors at the top left, down to Uruguay and the mouth of the Río de la Plata in the south. The imperial provinces of Brazil, among them Pará, Mato Grosso, São Paulo and Paraná, are lettered across the sheet. The Amazon system, the Madeira, the São Francisco and other rivers are traced in detail, with towns, ports and the long Atlantic coast lettered, and Paraguay appears at the lower left in green.
The map shows Brazil as an empire. The monarchy fell in 1889, five years after the date of this map, and the provinces shown here became the states of the republic.
