East Africa Sudan Darfur Ethiopia Somalia Egypt Congo 1891 Stieler old color map

Afrika in 6 Blattern, Blatt 4. top left- East Africa.

(Egypt / Nubia / Congo State / Kenya / Tanzinia / Uganda / Somalia / Ethiopia / Abyssinia / Darfur / Sudan / Somalia / Ethiopia / etc.)

Issued Gotha, Germany, 1891 by Perthes for Stieler.

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

Staggering level of details, thousands of place names- it would take a person literally 20 min to try to count them all. Interesting historical short-lived political boundaries. Small insets top right corner of Perim island and Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb.

In VG, clean condition. Numerous states of this incredibly detailed map exist, as yet still specifically unidentified within a cartobibliography.

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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