Prima Asie Tabula Türkiye from: Cosmographia

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

$24,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

This is one of the earliest obtainable maps of Türkiye. A beautiful incunable 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 lapis lazuli blue seas, not the ochre color of later editions. This rare hand-colored incunable is one of the earliest obtainable maps to picture Türkiye. It is from the 1482 Ulm edition of Ptolemy's Geographia,

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