African continent 1835 Bradford map Egypt Cape Colony Guinea Congo Abyssinia Southern U.S. Philadelphia by W

Philadelphia by W

Note the fine large detailed city plan inset

Bassette Company

Issued September 7th

Publisher's color lithographed cartographic pictorial paper wrappers (same map on both covers)

African continent 1835 Bradford map Egypt Cape Colony Guinea Congo Abyssinia Southern U.S. Philadelphia by WAfrica. (Old Maps, 19th Century Maps, Africa, Madagascar, Cape Town, Sudan, Congo, Sahara Desert, Tropic of Capricorn, Cape Verde). Issued 1835, Boston by Bradford for his "Atlas of Universal Geography". Includes the apocryphal Mountains of the Moon range across the center of the continent. An increasingly uncommon early 19th century American produced and engraved map with original outline hand color. Bradford maps of this decade are characterized by