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Chile and La Plata by John Dower

£55.00 Approx $69.36, €64.18

Code: 53027



Author: John Dower

Publisher: Orr and Co Amen Corner, Paternoster Row

Date published: 1835 circa

Steel engraving, original outline hand colouring. Overall size, hinged in off white fully conservation grade mount and back with decorative v groove : 36.3cms x 42.7cms. Image size : 210mm.x 265mm. Centrefold as published. Settlements marked according to their population. At bottom of map is a highly decorative Section of the Line A.B. featuring a chain of mountains, each named and with their heights marked. Very good condition apart from slight browning to bottom left and bottom margin underneath the mount. John Crane Dower (1791? - 1847) engraver, draughtsman, publisher and printer. Engraved maps for the Greenwood brothers for Thomas Moule, Henry Teesdale and George Bradshaw. He left the business to his sons, John James Dower and Frederick James Dower and the former was also prolific in map production. (British Map Engravers Worms and Baynton-Williams)