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C1599
Tabula Asiae XI
Mapmaker:
A superb example of this map, uncolured as issued, with wide margins. Map of south east Asia conforming with Ptolemy’s concept of a land locked Indian Ocean and showing a distorted shaped Malaysian Peninsula at centre. Rare Ref: Stevens
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Full Title:
Tabula Asiae XI
Date:
C1599
Mapmaker:
Condition:
In good condition, centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
235mm
x 180mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1599
Description:
A superb example of this map, uncolured as issued, with wide margins. Map of south east Asia conforming with Ptolemy’s concept of a land locked Indian Ocean and showing a distorted shaped Malaysian Peninsula at centre. Rare
Ref: Stevens
Girolamo Ruscelli (1504 - 1566)
Ruscelli was an Italian Alchemist, physician and cartographer, born around 1504 in Viterbo. He revised the Ptolemy Geography, which was issued 1561 until 1599 in Venice. The new copper engraved maps are based on Gastaldi's edition of 1548. He died in 1566 in Venice.
