Universalis tabula iuxta Ptolemaeum [cartographic material]
- Bib ID:
- 3420825
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- Scale [ca. 1:45,000,000]
- Description:
-
- [Coloniae Agrippinae [Germany] : Typus Godefridi Kempensis, anno Virginei Partus 1578]
- 1 map ; 32.3 x 45.8 cm.
- Notes:
-
- 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 windheads. Some relief is shown pictorially.
- Probaby [map 1] from: Tabulae Geographicae Cl. Ptolomaei ad mentem autoris restitutae & emendatae / per Gerhardum Mercatorem. Coloniae Agrippinae [Germany] : Typus Godefridi Kempensis, anno Virginei Partus 1578.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-231198454
- Text in Latin.
- Library's copy was acquired mounted on a larger sheet, obscuring the title at the top of the map and the additional backing obscuring the verso of the map.
- Cited In:
-
- Shirley, 1983, 139.
- Koeman/Van der Krogt, 1:501, 1
- Subject:
- World maps -- Maps
- Time Coverage:
- 1578
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
-
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1578
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