Item details: Asiae I Tab.
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£ 350.00
MERCATOR, Gerard - PTOLEMY, Claudius
Asiae I Tab.
Imprint: Utrecht, Francois Halma., 1578-[c.1695]
34 x 46 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 shows Ptolemaic Asia Minor or modern day Turkey. A prominent Cyprus is found as are the Greek Islands of Lesbos and Rhodes. 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:4025.