Details

Subject(s)

• Africa, North—Maps [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Maps—Africa, North—1540 [Browse]

Related work(s)

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

Notes

• Relief shown pictorially.
• Text within border on verso: Aegyptum, Marmaricam et Cyrenaicam, continet haec tertia Africæ 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.

Other title(s)

• Aegyptum, Marmaricam et Cyrenaicam, continet haec tertia Africæ tabula
• Tertia Africae tabula

OCLC

1340478321

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