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Tabvla Asiae IX - Antique map

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Pakistan."Tabula Asiae IX". Orig. woodcut from the first edition of C. Ptolemaeus' Geographia by S. Munster. Published in Basle by H. Petri, 1540. Orig. old colouring. With Lat. heading title and a cartouche with the list of main cities of the...

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Ptolemaeus, Claudius

Münster, Sebastian

Basilej

1540

Pakistan."Tabula Asiae IX". Orig. woodcut from the first edition of C. Ptolemaeus' Geographia by S. Munster. Published in Basle by H. Petri, 1540. Orig. old colouring. With Lat. heading title and a cartouche with the list of main cities of the region. 27:34,5 cm (10 3/4 x 13 1/2 inch.).

A Ptolemaic map of the southern part of Pakistan and the Indus river estuary from the rare first edition of Munster's "Geographia Universalis". - The woodcut border and ornaments on the verso are said to be the work of Hans Holbein.

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