Fine large map with detailed topographical features based on Guillaume de L’Isle. The map shows southern India with Ceylon and the Maldives. From Covens & Mortier “Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties su Monde” published in Amsterdam in 1730
[India] Carte d’une Partie des Indes Orientales, etats du Mogol le Cotes de Malabar et de Coromandel
- Year: 1730 ca.
- Dimension: 500 x 590 mm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
€ 350,00
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- Dimension: 196 x 134 mm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
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One of the earliest obtainable modern maps of the Holy Land, which appeared in the first edition of Munster’s Geographia, first published in Basle in 1540. Here in the 1552 edition easily recognized by the presence of latitude and longitude borders. The map extends from Sidon and the land of the Phoenians in the north to Gaza in the south with numerous Biblical sites and a number of vignettes. The inset is a key of ancient and modern placenames. This map is orientated with west at the top and is based on earlier maps by Munster and Ziegler. From the rare “Geographia Universalis, Vetus et Nova, complectens Claidii Prolemaei Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII” published in Basel at Heinrich Petri in 1552.
- Year: 1552
- Dimension: 285 x 378 mm
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