Item details: Tabula Asiae IX
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£ 225.00
MUNSTER, Sebastian
Tabula Asiae IX
Imprint: Basle, c.1551
270 x 345 mm. small wormhole left and right margins clear of the image, otherwise fine.
An attractive map of Ptolemaic Pakistan and Afghanistan first published in Munster's edition of Ptolemy's 'Geographia' in 1540. It was also included in editions of his 'Cosmographia', this example being from a Latin edition. Karrow, R.W. (16 c.) 58/97b; Nordenskiold II,287.
Stock number:4486.