Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1842
Sheet size
68 × 50.5 cm (26.8 × 19.9 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-12338-46
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, original folding line. Blank verso. Please review the images for further condition details.
About this sheet
South America, an original engraved map titled "Carte Generale de l'Amerique Meridionale", from the Atlas universel de geographie ancienne et moderne by Pierre M. Lapie and Alexandre E. Lapie, printed at Paris and dated 1842 in the title block. The borders and the outlines of the countries are colored by hand in soft pastel tints.
The map shows the whole continent from the Caribbean coast to Tierra del Fuego, with the Atlantic lettered "Ocean Atlantique" and "Ocean Atlantique Austral" along the east and the Pacific as "Grand Ocean Austral" on the west. Rivers, mountain ranges and a dense network of place names fill the interior, and the Falkland Islands appear off the southern coast. The title, a decorative script block, sits at the upper right, with a scale of distances in a small panel at the lower right. A graduated frame with longitude counted from the Paris meridian surrounds the sheet.
Pierre M. Lapie was a French cartographer and engraver, and his son Alexandre Emile Lapie worked with him on the atlas.
