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"Appendix Tab. III. Africae, Aegyptum Inferiorem Exhibens", Ptolemy/Mercator

Subject: Egypt

Period: 1698 (published)

Publication: Claudii Ptolemaei's Atlas Tabulae geographicae Orbis Terrarum

Color: Black & White

Size:
14.3 x 9.7 inches
36.3 x 24.6 cm
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Lovely engraved map of the Nile delta based on the Ptolemaic model. 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. This map includes two sailing ships in the stipple engraved sea.

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Condition: A+

Very wide margins and a crisp impression.

Estimate: $180 - $240

Sold for: $90

Closed on 12/1/2004

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