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Auction 104, Lot 553
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"Tab: IX. Asiae, Continens Ariam, Paropanisum, Drangianam, Arachosiam, et Gedrosiam", Ptolemy/Mercator

Subject: Pakistan

Period: 1698 (circa)

Publication: Claudii Ptolemaei's Atlas Tabulae geographicae Orbis Terrarum

Color: Black & White

Size:
15.5 x 13.6 inches
39.4 x 34.5 cm
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This fine copper engraved map covering the region to the west of the Indus River in what is present-day Pakistan. Mercator originally published this map in his 1578 edition of Ptolemy's great Geography. Although he is most renowned today for the projection he popularized and for first using the term Atlas for a collection of maps, he devoted much of his life to his Ptolemaic maps. The maps were beautifully engraved as nearly as possible to their original form and embellished with fine cartouches.

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Condition: A+

Estimate: $180 - $240

Sold for: $150

Closed on 9/10/2003

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