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Tabula Asiae II. (Asia Minor)

  • ARTIST: Claudius Ptolemy

  • PUBLISHER: Published by Giovanni Antonio Magini, Venice.

  • MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving,

    DATE: 1596

  • EDITION SIZE: Plate size 5 3/8 x 7" (13.5 x 17.8 cm) plus margins.

  • DESCRIPTION: A fine example of this Ptolemaic map showing Caucasus region from modern-day Ukrane, Crimea and Sea of Azov to the mouth of the Volga River and the Caspian Sea. This map appeared in Magini's"Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei Pars Scounda" which was part of "Geographiae Universae...".

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition. Black & white

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  • CATEGORIES: Maps