South and Central America

A NEW MAP OF THE ISTHMUS OF DARIEN IN AMERICA & A DRAFT OF THE GOLDEN ISLANDS (SCOTTISH EMPIRE)
"A Draft of the Golden & Adjacent Islands, with part of ye Isthmus of Darien as it was taken by Capt. Ieneser. Where ye Scots West-India Company were Setteled" and "a New Map of ye Isthmus of Darien in America, The Bay of Panama, The Gulf of Vallona"


John Senex (1678-1740)

Original antique copper engraved map
With original colour
Published by John Senex, London, 1721
Mounted in cream

Map size: 61 x 49cm
Mounted size: 80 x 68cm

Price: £900.00

Interesting pair of maps showing the Scottish Darien Colony in Central America and a more general map of the Isthmus of Darien, Panama, etc., extending from Honduras, Nicaragua and Coat Rica to the Government of St. Martha (Columbia).

The Darien scheme was an unsuccessful attempt by the Kingdom of Scotland to become a world trading nation by establishing a colony called "New Caledonia" on the Isthmus of Panama in the late 1690s.

In 1695 the Bank of Scotland was established and the Company of Scotland was chartered with capital to be raised by public subscription to trade with "Africa and the Indies". The Company of Scotland devised the Darien scheme, and was led by Scottish trader and financier William Paterson, to establish a colony on the Isthmus of Panama in the hope of establishing trade with the Far East and the mineral rich European colonies of the west coast of the Americas.View Item

ARGENTINE REPUBLIC & CHILI - SOUTH AMERICA - SHEET V
Original antique steel engraved map
Engraved by J. & C. Walker
Published by The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, London, 1874
With original hand-colouring
Mounted in cream

Image size: 39 x 34cm
Mounted size: 57 x 51cm

Price: £75.00View Item

BOLIVIA AND PERU - SOUTH AMERICA - SHEET III
Original antique steel engraved map
Engraved by J. & C. Walker
Published by The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, London, 1874
With original hand-colouring
Mounted in cream

Image size: 39 x 34cm
Mounted size: 57 x 51cm

Price: £75.00View Item

BOLIVIA OR UPPER PERU; CHILI AND UNITED PROVINCES OF SOUTH AMERICA OR LA PLATA
Original antique copper-engraved map
With original hand-colouring
Published by Lizars, 1831
Mounted in cream

Images size: 40 x 49cm
Mounted size: 59 x 68cm

Price: £95.00 View Item

BRASILIEN UND GUIANA UMGEBUNG VON RIO JANEIRO
By Joseph Meyer, 1796-1856
Original antique stell engraved map
With original hand colouring
Engraved by E. Biedermann
Published by Stich, Druck und Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts in Hildburghausen, 1860

Image size: 39 x 31 cms
Mounted size: 58 x 50 cms

Price: £125.00View Item

BRAZIL
Original antique steel engraved map
Drawn & engraved by J.W. Lowry
Published by Blackie & Son, 1864
With original colour
Mounted in cream

Image size: 34 x 50cm
Mounted size: 52 x 68cm

Price: £95.00View Item