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Asiae X Tab. (India.)

  • ARTIST: Gerard Mercator

  • MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving

    DATE: 1578

  • EDITION SIZE: 13 7/8 x 18" (353 x 459 mm) plus margins.

  • DESCRIPTION: Mercator's Ptolemaic map of India. It shows an area between the Indus and Ganges Rivers with the Himalayas. This map appeared in the 1578 edition of Mercator's "Geographia" based upon the works of Claudius Ptolemy.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition. Original handcoloring.

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  • CATEGORIES: Maps