"Antique hand colored map of EgyptNubiaand Abyssinia (Modern day EgyptSudanEritreaDjiboutiand part of Ethiopia). Publication date from the library's acquisition form. "Scale: 1:9,300,000
Map of Alexandria, revised in 1932-1933. This is one sheet of three that compose the entire map; the entire map is available in Arabic: http://digitalcollections.aucegypt.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15795coll6/id/565/rec/43Scale: 1:10,000
Includes index to principal buildings and places of interest. Insets: Gîza Pyramids. Scale 1:25,000 -- Ḥelwân. Scale 1:25,000 -- Central Cairo. Scale 1:12,000.Scale: Scale 1:25,000.
Text in Arabic reads: "The first map for Egypt governorates was drawn by the French expedition cartographers at the beginning of the 13th century H. (1213-1216 H.), but the hardships and resistance they have faced during their work, in addition to their ignorance of the Arabic language misled them to put the Arabic names on the right locations. All that lead to various mistakes in the French map and the maps that copied from it until we produced this map.\r\nTherefore, Khedive Ismail of Egypt, ordered me “Mahmoud Bey al Falaky” to draw a new map with the needed corrections. As the needed cartographic tools were not available at the time, I resorted to the astronomical coordinates.\r\nThe map was finished in 1287 H. representing all the cultivation and urbanization that has been implemented upon the orders of the khedive on that year."\r\n\r\n\r\nLithography by F.A. Brockhaus, Leipzig.Scale: 1:200,000
'Plate 26 is a map of Cairo from "Description de l\'ÉgypteouRecueil de observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l\'éxpédition de l\'armée françaisepublié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l\'empereur Napoléon le Grand."'