Antique Map of Peru and Bolivia by W. G. Blackie, 1859
€ 250
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1859
Sheet size
37 × 54 cm (14.6 × 21.3 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-12685-1-85
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
Peru and Bolivia on a map from The Imperial Atlas of Modern Geography, published by W. G. Blackie in 1859. The sheet is an engraved map with original hand color, with Peru outlined in blue and Bolivia in orange, and the title "Peru and Bolivia" lettered at lower left above two scale bars.
The map follows the Pacific coast northwest to southeast, with the narrow coastal strip and the Andes shown in dense hachures, and Lake Titicaca on the border between the two countries, near the sheet's center. Towns, ports, rivers and mountain chains are carefully lettered along the coast and the highlands. The interior to the east is much sparser, with the headwaters of the Amazon's tributaries and parts of Ecuador and Brazil only sketched at the edge.
The sheet shows both republics as they were drawn in 1859, a generation before the War of the Pacific of 1879 to 1884 redrew the borders of the region.
