Description
The center of the chart contains extensive historical text. The left half has a detailed timeline of “The Progress of Discovery and Settlement in America” from “942 AD Greenland discovered and colonized by Eirck the Red” to “1849 Discovery of gold in California, and immense migration from the States.” (That it ends in 1849 suggests this chart was published in the 1850s, which is also consistent with the style of printing and illustration.) The right half has a list of “Principle Indian Tribes of North America” and a list of “South American Indians; As Classified in Prichard’s ‘Natural History of Man'” that lists the tribes with brief descriptions.
Condition: Varnished, backed on linens, on ebonized wooden rollers, all original, as issued. Generally very good overall with light toning and wear, very faint dampstain in top margin, varnish somewhat irregular with some yellowing. Still of far superior condition to most extant maps or charts on rollers of this period.
