Nubie. Afrique. No. 18

Brussels: Phillippe Marie Vandermaelen, 1827. unbound. very good. Map. Large format lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 18.5" x 22.25".

Includes Nubia (Sudan) and cities along the Nile River. Double page with centerfold. From Vandermaelen's 6 volume "Atlas universel de geographie physique, politique, statistique et mineralogique, sur l'echelle de 1/16411836". Can be combined as gores to form an immense globe. The atlas was the first to map the world on a uniform scale. (Inventory #: 202375)