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1851 John Tallis
$ 145.00
Description

Decorative and detailed map showing what is now northern Argentina and central Chile. The span of the map stretches from the Salta Province in Argentina to the Araucania Province in Chile. Numerous cities, mountains, rivers, islands, and more are labeled. Minor detail is shown in the neighboring country of Paraguay. Uruguay is shown as part of Brazil.

Vignettes shown include a traveling post, the Grand Square in Buenos Aires, a regional "Gobernador," a rattlesnake, and the ox-drawn water barrel of a Buenos Aires water seller.

Tallis was one of the last great decorative map makers. His maps are prized for the wonderful vignettes which adorn them.

John Tallis Biography

John Tallis (1817-1876) was a British map publisher. Born in the Midlands, Tallis came to London in the 1840s. Tallis began his London career with a series of remarkable London street views. He began a partnership with a Frederick Tallis, possibly his brother, but their collaboration ended in 1849. For the Great Exhibition of 1851, Tallis published the Illustrated World Atlas, one of the last series of decorative world maps ever produced. The maps were engraved by John Rapkin, a skilled artisan. The maps were later reissued by the London Printing & Publishing Company, who left the Tallis imprint intact, thus ensuring his enduring fame. In 1858, he began publication of the popular Illustrated News of the World and National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages, selling it in 1861 (it ceased publication in 1863).