Item details: Tabula Asiae X
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£ 135.00
RUSCELLI, Girolamo
Tabula Asiae X
Imprint: Venice, 1561-[98]
200 x 265 mm., in fine condition. With Italian text to the verso.
Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's "Geography" included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio Sanuto. First published in 1561 this example is in its third state as published in the 1598 edition. It depicts the Indian "peninsula" as mapped by Ptolemy. The Indus and Ganges rivers can be clearly seen. Nordenskiold 227; Shirley 'Atlases in the BL' T.Ptol-10f.
Stock number:4692.