Almost certainly one of the earliest available printed images of a seashell anyone could ever hope to acquire
Printed on quality handmade paper which retains its inherent structural flexibility and soundness
The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith
Uncommon mid 19th century lithographed map
15 3/8" H x 10 1/4" W
Africa continent Donga Mts. empty interior 1841 Goodrich Bradford Boynton map Americas & Americana Almost certainly one of theAfrica. (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