Subject: Ancient World
Period: 1545 (circa)
Publication: Geographia…
Color: Hand Color
Size:
13.5 x 10 inches
34.3 x 25.4 cm
This woodcut, Ptolemaic world map is surrounded by clouds and eleven wind heads (with their names shown in the banners). The continents are oddly shaped and all connected by a great southern continent Terra incognito secundum Ptolemaeum. There is a very large Taprobana (modern day Sri Lanka) in the Indian Ocean, and the Indian subcontinent is severely truncated. Only the northern part of Africa is shown with the Nile originating from a series of lakes in a large mountain range. Latin title and text on verso.
References: Shirley #76.
Condition: A
There are a couple edge tears and remnants of linen hinges on verso.
