Afrika African continent Madagascar Congo Sahara Guinea 1890 Stieler color map
Afrika African continent Madagascar Congo Sahara Guinea 1890 Stieler color map Afrika African continent Madagascar Congo Sahara Guinea 1890 Stieler color map Afrika African continent Madagascar Congo Sahara Guinea 1890 Stieler color map Afrika African continent Madagascar Congo Sahara Guinea 1890 Stieler color map
$ 44.00

Afrika

(Africa)

Issued Gotha, Germany, 1891 by Perthes for Stieler.

Fine, remarkably detailed late-19th century antique engraved map with original hand color.

Large detailed inset lower left of Ost-Afrika covering across to Lake Victoria (East Africa), tiny insets of the islands of Ascension & St. Helena. Color coded key lower right identifies Colonial European possessions as they then existed at this historical moment.

A map which went through continual changes and revisions and likely exists in a wide variety of undocumented states. One could perhaps assemble over 2 dozen states of this map from the many different Stieler atlases.

In VG, clean condition.

Original fold line as issued.

Sheet measures c. 19" x 15"

Engraved area measures c. 16" x 13"

Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers , vol. IV, pg. 216.

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