Keywords: 1855 Colton Map of Northeastern Africa - Geographicus - AfricaNorthEast-colton-1855.jpg A beautiful 1855 first edition example of Colton's map of north eastern Africa Covers from the Mediterranean south as far as Mount Kenya west as far as Tripoli and east to include most of Arabia This is one of the first American map to depict Mount Kenya Shows the explorations of that Arab explorer Mohammad Ali in search of the source of the White Nile Also identifies the semi-apocryphal Mountains of the Moon or Jebel el Kumert running in an unusual speculative north-south configuration between Mount Kenya and Abyssinia Throughout Colton identifies various cities towns forts rivers and assortment of additional topographical details An inset map in the upper right quadrant details the Nile Delta Surrounded by Colton's typical spiral motif border Dated and copyrighted to J H Colton 1855 Published from Colton's 172 William Street Office in New York City Issued as page no 34 in volume 2 of the first edition of George Washington Colton's 1855 Atlas of the World 1855 dated Size in 13 16 object history credit line accession number AfricaNorthEast-colton-1855 Colton G W <i>Colton's Atlas of the World Illustrating Physical and Political Geography</i> Vol 2 New York 1855 First Edition Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by Joseph Hutchins Colton Old maps of Africa Old maps of the Middle East 1855 maps |