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Auction 155, Lot 374
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"Colombia, Dedicated to Colonel Belford Hinton Wilson...", Arrowsmith, John

Subject: Northern South America

Period: 1834 (dated)

Publication: The London Atlas of Universal Geography

Color: Hand Color

Size:
23.9 x 18.9 inches
60.7 x 48 cm
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This densely engraved map of northern South America depicts Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, and part of Brazil. It identifies key regions, towns, rivers and depicts mountains via hachure. The map is dedicated to "Colonel Belford Hinton Wilson, late Aid de Camp to the Liberator, Simon Bolivar." Bolivar was a Venezuelan political leader who helped Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Colombia achieve freedom from Spanish rule.

References: Kapp (MCC-77) #152.

Condition: B+

Original outline color with a few light spots of foxing and several short marginal tears.

Estimate: $190 - $220

Sold for: $110

Closed on 11/18/2015

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