Amsterdam, ca. 1697. Ptolemaic map of Central Asia, centered on the Indus River. The map extends from the Gujarat region in the east to west of Karchi, the north to the mountains. Mercator originally published this map in his 1578 edition of Ptolemy's Geographia. -- From dealer description.; Relief shown pictorially.; Prime meridian: [Fortunate ...
Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Contributor:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Created:
1704?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 3 cm. = 125 Miliaria Germanica communia quorum 15 gradum unum latitudinus constituant." Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. Originally published in Mercator's Atlas sive Cosmographicae ..., 1595. Includes part of Northern Australia and North-West America and Japan on a kit-shaped outline taken from M...
Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard , 1512-1594
Created:
1628?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Relief shown pictorially. Title from another facsimile published by the New York Public Library. Also known as World map on double cordiform projection and Orbis imago. Facsimile of Gerhard Mercator's first world map, published in Louvain, 1538.
Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Contributor:
Brevoort, James Carson, 1818-1887
Created:
1920?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Map of the ancient world covering Europe, North Africa, Middle East and most of Asia in Mercator's revised style of Ptolemy's Geographia. The map is surrounded by a decorative border with twelve named wind heads. Some relief is shown pictorially.; Probably [map 1] from: Tabulae Geographicae Cl. Ptolomaei ad mentem autoris restitutae & emendatae ...
Creator:
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Contributor:
Ptolemy, active 2nd century; Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
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