Venezuela, New Granada and Ecuador, Antique Map, Northern South America, 1860
€ 340
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1860
Sheet size
37 × 54 cm (14.6 × 21.3 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-13383-4
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. Light overall age toning consistent with age. Minor scattered foxing and light handling marks, mainly in the margins. Original central fold as issued. No major tears or losses.
About this sheet
Northern South America in an original steel-engraved atlas map titled "Venezuela, New Granada and Ecuador," from The Imperial Atlas of Modern Geography, published by W. G. Blackie around 1860. The sheet has original outline hand color in orange, blue, green and other tints marking the national boundaries.
The map runs from the Caribbean Sea at the top to the upper Amazon basin at the foot, with the Pacific coast at the left. New Granada, the name then borne by present-day Colombia, spreads across the center, with the Isthmus of Panama curving out at its upper left; Venezuela fills the upper right, and Ecuador lies at the lower left, with Brazil lettered along the lower right. The Andes divide into their ranges through Colombia and Ecuador and are engraved in dense hachures, and the rivers of the Orinoco and Magdalena systems are traced through the interior, with towns, routes and coastal names crowded along the Caribbean shore. The title and scales are placed in the lower right corner.
The sheet is a mid-century record of a region in transition: it shows New Granada, Venezuela and Ecuador as separate states, as they were in 1860, before Colombia took its later name.
