Historic Map : Mitchell Map of South America, Version 7, 1867, Vintage Wall Art Size:16in x 20in Centered on the Black Sea

Centered on the Black Sea

this map was derived from an earlier map by J

At the time this map was issued

when it would be ceded to the Kingdom of Italy

then laterally bisecting the Indian Ocean and running northwest just south of the Sahara to meet the Atlantic in Morocco

Historic Map : Mitchell Map of South America, Version 7, 1867, Vintage Wall Art Size:16in x 20in Centered on the Black SeaA beautiful example of the legendary American map publisher Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr.'s 1867 map of South America. Depicting the whole continent from Panama to Cape Horn, it includes the Falkland and South Georgia island groups. Mitchell offers limmited but surprisingly accurate detail of the interior of Brazil and the Amazon Basin. An inset map in the lower right quadrant depicts the Isthmus of Panama entitled 'Map Showing the Proposed Atrato