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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 121 - closed 9/26/2007

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Lot #694: "Tabula Asiae IIII" Sebastian Munster

Antique map chart Tabula Asiae IIII
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Estimate:
$300.00 - $400.00
Sold for: $230.00

Lot 694
By: Sebastian Munster
Subject: Near and Middle East
Date: 1540

Publication: Geographia

Condition: B+
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Color: uncolored

Size: 13.6 x 10 inches
34.6 x 25.4 cm

Woodblock Ptolemaic map of the Middle East from present-day Iraq and the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers westward to the Mediterranean Sea and the island of Cyprus. A Bedouin encampment is shown in the interior of Arabia Deserta. The shoreline of the Holy Land runs from Ptolemais (Acco) as far as Ascalon. There is a nonexistent bay north of Acco and the same north of Jaffa. There are four text boxes describing Syria, Mesopotamia, Cyprus and Arabia. Latin text on verso.

There are a pair of tiny holes near centerfold.

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