Africa South North Cape Town Sahara Desert 1835 Bradford mapAfrica. (Early American Cartography, map, Africa, Madagascar, Cape Town, Sudan, Congo, Sahara Desert, equator, Tropic of Capricorn, Cape Verde, ). Issued 1835, Boston by Bradford for his "Atlas of Universal Geography". Includes the apocryphal Mountains of the Moon range across the center of the continent. An increasingly uncommon early 19th century American produced and engraved map with original outline hand color. Bradford maps of this decade are