[India Extra Gangem]

Author: [after Ptolemy] [after Fries, Lorenz] [after Ptolemy, Claudius] [Ptolemaeus]

Publisher: Gaspar Trechsel in Vienna

Year: 1541 [1535] [1522]

Size: 28.5 x 40.8 cm map; 39.3 x 54.5 cm page

SKU: 57623 Category: Antique Maps - Philippines Tag: Southeast Asia 12

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Description

copper engraving, uncoloured as issued. RARE map from “Geographicae enarrationis libri octo…”, published in Vienna by Gaspar Trechsel; a collector’s item which shows curiously the “Manilae Insule” in a strange Western location described in Latin as a source of marble and mirrors the edition with the header “Tabula XI Asie”. First edition: Fries 1522, first edition Trechsel 1535.