Tabula Asiae VII
Venice.
Map. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 7 1/2" x 10 1/4", sheet measures 8 1/2" x 12 1/4"
Early map of Central Asia published circa 1574 in beautiful detail, with major rivers, cities, mountain ranges, and regions labeled. The map depicts the region east of the Caspian Sea, including present-day Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and part of Iran. Shows the Turris Lapideas, a stone tower marking the midpoint of the ancient silk road. Mountains are depicted pictorially. In very good condition.
Claudius Ptolemy (90-168 CE) was a Roman geographer and mathematician living in Egypt, who compiled his knowledge and theories about the world's geography into one seminal work. Although his maps did not survive, his mathematical projections and location coordinates did. During the Renaissance revival of Greek and Roman works, "Geographia" was rediscovered by monks and based upon Ptolemy's detailed instructions, the maps were recreated. The first printed edition of "Geographia" with maps was published in Bologna in 1477.
Girolamo Ruscelli (c. 1504-1566) was a Venetian editor, cartographer, and physician whose maps are primarily based on those by Jacopo Gastaldi (1548) but with many of his own additions and reproduced on a larger scale. He is best known for his translation and publication of Ptolemy's "Geographia.%u201D
Binding: Unbound
Language: English
Price: $250.00
Item #334637