Nona Asiae Tabula Afghanistan, India, Iran, and Pakistan from: Cosmographia

by c., Cartographer Ad, Cartographer, fl., Woodcutter

$18,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

One of the earliest obtainable maps of the Middle East and the Kathiawar Peninsula of India, Mahatama Gandhi's birthplace. This hand-colored incunable map is from the 1482 Ulm edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, the first atlas to be printed north of the Alps and the first with woodcut maps. Here with fine period coloring, including a lapis lazuli blue sea, not the ochre color of late editions. This rare incunable is one of the earliest obtainable maps to picture the Middle

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