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PCT-56394
Antique Map of Italy by Wyld (1854)
- Condition: Very good, given age. Original middle fold as issued. Small tear in top left margin. Right margin a bit browned. Horizontal crease. Contemporary hand coloring. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
- Date: 1854
- Overall size: 58.5 x 72.5 cm
- Image size: 55.7 x 64 cm.
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Description: Antique map titled 'The States of Italy, with their islands, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily & Malta, describing the new limits as confirmed by the definitive treaty of Paris 1815.' Large map of Italy. From James Wyld's 'A New General Atlas of Modern Geography.', published by James Wyld. Geographer to Her Majesty Charing Cross East. 1854.
Artists and Engravers: Cartographer: James Wyld. James Wyld (1812-1887) was a British publisher and cartographer. His greatest geographical achievement was Wyld's Great Globe, exhibited in Leicester Square between 1851 and 1862. The globe, sixty feet high and lighted with gas, was at that point the largest ever constructed. He was geographer to Queen Victoria and H.R.H. Prince Albert.