South America

Continental outlines, changing republics and the Amazon basin give these antique maps of South America a vast geographical s...

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Continental outlines, changing republics and the Amazon basin give these antique maps of South America a vast geographical sweep. Earlier sheets keep colonial names such as New Granada and La Plata, while nineteenth-century atlases record the states that grew out of those territories. The Andes, the great rivers and the long Pacific and Atlantic coasts recur in maps by Thomson, Vandermaelen, Tallis and later publishers, and harbour charts and exploration mapping focus on particular coasts and inland journeys. Prints show port towns, mountain passes, Indigenous communities and rural life from the Guianas and Brazil to Chile, Argentina and Patagonia.

Continental outlines, changing republics and the Amazon basin give these antique maps of South America a vast geographical sweep. Earlier sheets keep colonial names such as New Granada and La Plata, while nineteenth-century atlases record the states that grew out of those territories. The Andes, the great rivers and the long Pacific and Atlantic coasts recur in maps by Thomson, Vandermaelen, Tallis and later publishers, and harbour charts and exploration mapping focus on particular coasts and inland journeys. Prints show port towns, mountain passes, Indigenous communities and rural life from the Guianas and Brazil to Chile, Argentina and Patagonia.

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