Antique hand-colored Map
France , Spain , Portugal , Italy and Greece
Mitchell's Geography Map
Copyright 1852
( dated 1852 at the lower margin of the map )

9.25" x 11.5" overall

Condition
General wear, edge wear, aged paper.
Old pencil doodling on the back.
( 19th century schoolboy drawings of a sailing ship with United States flag , Indian head , Cow )
Otherwise good.

Over 170 years old.

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Map of Mediterranean / Atlantic Europe with Greece inset.

Includes :
English Channel
France
Paris
Major Railroad routes
Italy
( note: in 1852 Italy was not a unified country ; the Italian peninsula was divided into a patchwork of separate, independent states, and the different regions were ruled by various powers and monarchs. The Kingdom of Piedmont - Sardinia in the northwest was the only independent Italian state with a native king, Victor Emmanuel II. The Austrian Controlled North were wealthy, vibrant regions of Lombardy and Venetia [ Venice ] were directly ruled by the Austrian Empire. The Papal States or Church States were ruled by the Catholic Pope - a large portion of central Italy, including Rome , backed by French troops. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies covered the entire southern half of the peninsula and Sicily ,and was the largest of the Italian states, ruled by the Bourbon dynasty. ) Sardinia
Corsica
Adriatic Sea or Gulf of Venice
Greece and Ionian Islands
Mediterranean Sea
Island of Malta
Balearic Isles ( Majorca , Minorca , etc. )
Spain
Strait of Gibraltar
Trafalgar Naval Battle site ( Victory of Admiral Nelson )
Portugal
Lisbon
Etc., Etc.

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Over 170 years old.

Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer