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From Gerard Mercator’s edition of ‘Claudii Ptolemaei Tabulae Geographicae Orbis Terrarum’. This map displays Persia or modern day Iran. Second state, with modified cartouche. It was in 1578 that one of the world’s greatest cartographers put out an edition of the earliest surviving geographical treatise. Ala’i, Cyrus. (2003). ‘Mapping Persia: A brief introduction’, in IMCoS Journal 94 pp. 5-22; Koeman Me 5; Nordenskiold 234; Phillips, P.L. (Atlases) 384; Shirley BL T.Ptol-11a & 11k; Van der Krogt, P. (Atlantes) 1:501.
MERCATOR, Gerard – PTOLEMY, Claudius
Tab. V. Asiae, Repraesentans Mediam, Hyrcaniam, Assyriam, Susianam, ac Persiem ...
Francois Halma, Utrecht, 1578-[c.1695]
340 x 460 mm., a fine example in modern wash colour.
Stock number: 4021
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