Details

Subject(s)

• Africa, North—Maps [Browse]

Donor

• McCabe, Robert A., 1934- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Maps—Africa, North—1550 [Browse]
• Maps—Africa, North—1552 [Browse]

Related work(s)

Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Geographia. [Browse]

Notes

• Relief shown pictorially.
• Text within border on verso: Quarta Aphricae tabula.
• From "Ptolemy's Geographia edited by Sebastian Münster (Basle, 1540, 1545, 1550, 1552). Woodcut, with place names printed from metal type."
• "Mountains are overlapping cones, shaded on the west." - Skelton. Decorative printed maps. p. 40. see pl. 5 at end.
• Historic Maps copies lack numbers in top corners, as described by Norwich. The 1552 copy has been positively matched to the copy in a 1552 edition; the other one (1550) has been dated by the process of elimination--it does not match the points of the 1540, 1545, or 1552 editions.

Source acquisition

Historic Maps copy 1 (1552) is gift of Robert A. McCabe, Princeton Class of 1956.

References

Norwich, O.I. Norwich's maps of Africa 291

Other title(s)

Quarta Aphricae tabula

OCLC

63051943

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