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From Gerard Mercator’s edition of ‘Claudii Ptolemaei Tabulae Geographicae Orbis Terrarum’. It was in 1578 that one of the world’s greatest cartographers put out an edition of the earliest surviving geographical treatise. A Ptolemy representation of central North Africa displaying the island of Sardinia, Sicily and Malta in the Mediterranean Sea. Koeman Me 5; Nordenskiold 234; Norwich no. 295; Phillips, P.L. (Atlases) 384; Shirley BL T.Ptol-11a & 11k; Van der Krogt, P. (Atlantes) 1:501.
MERCATOR, Gerard – PTOLEMY, Claudius
Afr. II. Tab.
Francois Halma., Utrecht, 1578-[c.1695]
330 x 470 mm., a fine example in modern wash colour.
Stock number: 4027
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