Nona Asie Tabula.
Ulm,
Lienhart Holle,
16 July 1482.
Double-page woodcut map, fine original hand-colour.
420 by 565mm. (16.5 by 22.25 inches).
3115
notes:
This striking map depicts Pakistan and Afghanistan as envisaged by the second century A.D, cartographer Claudius Ptolemaeus, and is one of the earliest obtainable prints maps of the area. The four areas depicted at the top of the map roughly conform to modern day Afghanistan. "Gedrosia" to the south western Pakistan, with the Indus river lying upon its eastern border.
The map was published in the first atlas printed outside Italy and the first atlas illustrated w...
The map was published in the first atlas printed outside Italy and the first atlas illustrated w...
bibliography:
Campbell, T., 'Earliest Printed Maps', p. 179-210; Schreiber 5032; Skelton, R.A., Bibliographical note prefixed to the facsimile of the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy
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