Item details: Asiae IX Tab:
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£ 325.00
MERCATOR, Gerard - PTOLEMY, Claudius
Asiae IX Tab:
Imprint: Utrecht, Francois Halma., 1578-[c.1695]
35 x 40 cms., a fine example in modern wash colour.
From Gerard Mercator's edition of 'Claudii Ptolemaei Tabulae Geographicae Orbis Terrarum'. It was in 1578 that one of the worlds greatest cartographers put out an edition of the earliest surviving geographical treatise. This map centres on present day Pakistan with the Indus River prominent. Upper right can be seen the Himalayan Mountains. Koeman Me 5; Nordenskiold 234; Phillips, P.L. (Atlases) 384; Shirley BL T.Ptol-11a & 11k; Van der Krogt, P. (Atlantes) 1:501.
Stock number:4022.