MÜNSTER, S. - Tabula Asiae XI.
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MÜNSTER, S. - Tabula Asiae XI.
Published: Basle, H. Petri, c. 1552
Size: 305 x 357mm.
Color: Coloured.
Condition: Wood cut block, with Latin text on verso. Paper slightly age toned. Repair of split lower part centerfold just affecting the scale border.
Description
Attractive early woodblock map of the Indian Ocean, extending from Southeast Asia to the Ganges River and north to the Himalayas.
In upper left inset panel of tiger, cockerels and parrot. Woodcut map as known to Ptolemy. From his Geographia Universalis vetus et nova ... Claudii Ptolemai Alexandrini.
In upper left inset panel of tiger, cockerels and parrot. Woodcut map as known to Ptolemy. From his Geographia Universalis vetus et nova ... Claudii Ptolemai Alexandrini.
550€
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- Reference N°: 39384
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