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Africae IIII. Tab: - Antique map

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Northern Africa."Africae IIII. Tab:". Orig. copper-engraving by G. Mercator after Ptolemaus' map of the region, published 1578. Original old colouring. With printed heading title and great ornamental cartouche 31:47 cm (12 1/4 x 18 1/2 inch.).

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Ptolemaeus, C.

Mercator, Gerard

1578

Northern Africa."Africae IIII. Tab:". Orig. copper-engraving by G. Mercator after Ptolemaus' map of the region, published 1578. Original old colouring. With printed heading title and great ornamental cartouche 31:47 cm (12 1/4 x 18 1/2 inch.).

Koeman I, map 0914:1.1, ed. 1:501 (1578 Ptol.) - From rare first edition of Mercator's "Tabulae Geographicae Cl Ptolemaei ...". Decorative and rather idealized map of northern part of Africa down to equator with the Red Sea on the right.


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