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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. This map is of the Arabian Peninsula and is one of the more recognisable Ptolemy maps. Not in Gole. Koeman Me 5; Nordenskiold 234; Phillips, P.L. (Atlases) 384; Shirley BL T.Ptol-11a & 11k; Tibbetts no. 45; Van der Krogt, P. (Atlantes) 1:501.
MERCATOR, Gerard – PTOLEMY, Claudius
Asiae VI Tab
Francois Halma, Utrecht, 1578-[c.1695]
340 x 480 mm., a fine example in modern wash colour.
Stock number: 4024
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