Historic Map : Mitchell Map of South America, Version 7, 1867, Vintage Wall Art Size:16in x 20in An inset on the upper

An inset on the upper left quadrant details Paris (Lutece)

this map was derived from an earlier map by J

Charlestown and East Boston : plate 17

published by Justus Perthes

At the time this map was issued

Historic Map : Mitchell Map of South America, Version 7, 1867, Vintage Wall Art Size:16in x 20in An inset on the upperA 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