Africa South North Cape Town Sahara Desert 1835 Bradford map

Africa.

(Early American Cartography, map, Africa, Madagascar, Cape Town, Sudan, Congo, Sahara Desert, equator, 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 an almost primitive engraving style, unique to this era of cartographic production in America.

Nice looking example, light old damp staining to sheet which is easy to miss, overlook or forgive visually, pleasing age patina, any minor age flaws easy to overlook or forgive.

Sheet Measures c. 9 3/4" H x 12 3/4" W.

Engraved Area Measures c. 7 3/4" H x 9 3/4" W.

Cartographic Reference(s):

Reps, American Maps and Mapmakers, pp. 270-71.

Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, vol. 1.

[R21752].