Asia VI Tabula.

Asia VI Tabula.

£3,000
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Asia VI Tabula.
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  • Asia VI Tabula.
Asia VI Tabula.

Asia VI Tabula.

£3,000

ID #8624

Ptolemaeus, Claudius. [Mercator]

Two sheets, 31 x 46 cm, wood engraved plate, with a cartouche, Medius meridianus 84 reliqui ad hunc inclinantur pro exigentia parallelorum 33.27, per Gerardum Mercatorem typis Godefridi Kempenis. Coloniae Agrippinae, 1578.

Claudius Ptolemaeus and Martin Waldseemuller (ca. 1470-1518) were German cartographers. This map was first printed in Lyon in 1522, and it is almost a copy of the 1513 map with a few slight differences. Letters are given around the edge for reference to the gazetteer. This map is much more finely engraved and more accurately fitted to the tables than any of the maps of the previous Ptolemaeus editions.
From: Tabula Geographicae CL: Ptolmei ad mentem auctoris restitutae et emendatae. Per Gerardum Mercatorem typis Godefridi Kempensis Coloniae Agrippinae, 1575.
References: Tibbetts 39. Ankari 127.

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