Stanford’s Library Map of South America
Stanford’s Library Map of South America shows the continent after independence, while many of its borders were still unsettled. Reproduced from the Edward Stanford Cartographic Collection archive, it suits history enthusiasts, Latin America scholars, and library or study walls.
- Publisher: Stanfords, the London firm founded by Edward Stanford.
- Originally published: 1864.
- Compiled by Alexander Keith Johnston, Geographer to the Queen in Edinburgh.
- Original scale: 1:5,275,000, first printed on four sheets.
- Territory: all of South America, plus Central America to southern Guatemala.
- Caribbean coverage reaches the southern tip of Dominica.
- Disputed zones appear between Bolivia and Paraguay, and between Peru and Ecuador.
- Brazil shares a contested border with the Granadian Confederation, today’s Colombia.
- British Guiana and Dutch Guiana stand where Guyana and Suriname are now.
- Topography is drawn with hachures, including the Andes.
- Many tributaries of the Amazon, Orinoco, and Paraná are named.
- Latitude and longitude lines run at 5° intervals.
- Modern borders are not shown. Many period lines differ from today’s.
Map Shop offers this as an archival reproduction for collectors and teachers of South American history.

