Item details: Tabula Asiae VI
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£ 195.00
MAGINI, Giovanni Antonio
Tabula Asiae VI
Imprint: Cologne, 1597
135 x 175 mm., in excellent condition.
From the Cologne edition of Magini's issue of Ptolemy's 'Geography'. Magini was from Padua and would later publish an atlas of Italy. The maps in this work are expertly printed by Peter Keschedt and are particularly detailed and attractive. Shirley cited them as being 'more florid than the Venice plates'. This particular map is of the Arabian peninsula. Meurer, P.H. 'Cologne' Mag 1; Shirley 'Atlases in BL' T.Ptol-13a; Nordenskiold 224.
Stock number:4579.