Africa continent Donga Mts. empty interior 1841 Goodrich Bradford Boynton map Americas & Americana Small engraved portraits on title

Small engraved portraits on title pages

Ruinen von Palmyra (Thadmor) in der Wuste in Syrien

Almost certainly one of the earliest available printed images of a seashell anyone could ever hope to acquire

15 3/8" H x 10 1/4" W

Published 1800

Africa continent Donga Mts. empty interior 1841 Goodrich Bradford Boynton map Americas & Americana Small engraved portraits on titleAfrica. (Africa, Cape Colony, Mozambique, Madagascar, Congo, Angola, Guinea, Sudan, Egypt, Abyssinia, Tripoli, Tunis, Algeria, Morocco). Issued 1841, Boston by S. Goodrich. Engraved by Boynton. Uncommon mid 19th century engraved map with original hand color. Note the entirely empty interior, although the apocryphal Donga Mts. (Mts. of the Moon) are named and show as being one of the Nile sources. Lake of other lakes which do exist along the eastern