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Keywords: 1818 Pinkerton Map of Egypt - Geographicus - Egypt-pinkerton-1818.jpg Pinkerton's extraordinary 1818 map of Egypt Covers the region centered on the Nile River from its delta along the Mediterranean south to the Island of Philae and the city of Aswan Notes numerous cities and villages along the river as well as various ancient Egyptian ruins including the Pyramids of Giza and the temples of ancient Thebes Also offers considerable detail the Valley of Natron with is numerous important Coptic monasteries Several desert oases are also noted including Fayoum Parva Kharga and Haled In the Red Sea the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba several undersea shoals and reefs are noted Also notes Mountain Sinai Identifies cities towns castles swamps mountains and river ways Title plate in the lower left quadrant Two mile scales in Arabian Miles and British Statute Miles also appear in the lower left quadrant Drawn by L Herbert and engraved by Samuel Neele under the direction of John Pinkerton This map comes from the scarce American edition of Pinkerton ™s Modern Atlas published by Thomas Dobson Co of Philadelphia in 1818 1818 undated Size in 20 5 28 object history credit line accession number Egypt-pinkerton-1818 Pinkerton J <i>A Modern Atlas from the Lates and Best Authorities Exhibiting the Various Divisions of the World with its chief Empires Kingdoms and States; in Sixty Maps carefully reduced from the Larges and Most Authentic Sources </i> 1818 Philadelphia Thomas Dobson Edition Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by John Pinkerton Old maps of Egypt 1818 maps Old maps of the Nile Maps in English Maps of river deltas 1818 in Egypt
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