North Africa - Aphricae Tabula I, woodblock map, Münster, 1540 - Old maps for sale

Author: Münster, Sebastian

Other authors: Ptolemy, Claudius

Publisher: Petri, Heinrich

Published: Basel

Publishing year: 1540

North Africa. "Aphricae Tabula I". Orig. woodblock from the first edition of S. Münster's Geographia. Published by Heinrch Petri in Basel, 1540. With latin title above the map, a cartouche and depiction of a ship. 25,5:33 cm (10 x 13 inch.).

A Ptolemaic map of Northeast Africa and the Mediterranean with Balearic islands and southern part of Spain from the 1st edition of Münster's 'Geographia universalis vetus et nova complectens Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis Libros VIII'.

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