Wilkinson Robert Puke (2 results)

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Original map printed in black ink on beige paper with some hand-coloring done in pink, yellow, green, orange, and blue watercolors. Map is mounted on a window matboard with two pieces of tape at top and bottom edges and backed with solid matboard. Front mat is medium gray. Back mat is beige. No date, circa 1794. Printed map area: 8 1/2" x 10 3/4." Entire map (size of sheet): 10 1/4" x 12." Mat: 13 3/4" x 15 1/2." Map is clean and intact except for browning, wrinkling and creases, a tape-repaired puncture or closed tear measuring about 3," and a few tiny spots of discoloration. Matboards are clean and intact overall except for age toning, spots of rubbing or surface tearing , and slight wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. This is a charming printed map, with some hand-coloring done in watercolor, that shows South America. The mapmaker was Robert Wilkinson (1752-1825), an English mapmaker whose work spanned mostly from 1794-1816. The engraver of this map was L. Puke. This map likely came from Wilkinson's famous atlas titled, "A General Atlas, being a Collection of Maps of the World and Quarters, the Principal Empires and Kingdoms & c." (London: 1794). The information used to draw this map may have been taken from James Forbes's Descriptive Letters and Drawings, Volume 1. The cardinal extremities of this map are centered upon the continent so that the north and south boundaries of the map stop at about the north and south ends of the South America and the west and east boundaries are defined by the west and east boundaries of South America. The hand-colored areas demarcate some of the South American regions and countries such as the Amazon, Paraguay, Guyana, Brazil, Peu, Chile, Patagonia, and Terra del Fuego. The map border shows degrees of latitude and longitude. The surrounding oceans are labeled as the North Atlantic Ocea, South Atlantic Ocean, and South Pacific Ocean. The continent is labeled with all sorts of names that identify natural geographic features as well as other landmarks such as ports and cities. Geographic features are depicted such as rivers and mountain ranges.

32,5 x 26 cm A New Map of South America, drawn from the latest discoveries, hrst. vo. Rob. Wilkinson, London, 1794, ges. v. I. Puke, Format: 32,5 x 26 cm, koloriert., guter Zustand. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.