Africae I. Tab: - Antique map

Author: Mercator, Gerardus

Other authors: Ptolemy, Claudius

Publisher: Gottfried von Kempen

Published: Cologne

Publishing year: 1578

Northwest Africa."Africae I. Tab:". Orig. copperplate engraving, G. Mercator after Ptolemaus' map of the region. Published by G. von Kempen in Cologne, 1578. Original old colouring. With engraved title above the map, ornamental cartouche and a ship with a sea-creature in Mediterranean Sea. 32,5:46,5 cm (12 3/4 x 18 1/4 inch.) on paper sized 41,5:52,5 cm.

Koeman I, map 0911:1.1, ed. 1:501 (1578 Ptol. - verso blank); Norwich, Maps of Africa, map 294. - A decorative and rather idealized map of Marocco and the northern part of Algeria from rare first edition of Mercator's "Tabulae Geographicae Cl Ptolemaei ...".

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