"Tabu. IX Asiae", Ptolemy/Fries

This rare Ptolemaic map covers the region of present-day Pakistan and part of Afghanistan. Convoluted mountain ranges and river systems dominate the trapezoidal map. The title is enclosed in a banner above the map and the map is enhanced with a small illustration of a king. The Latin text on verso includes an illustration of cities and strange inhabitants and animals thought to occupy the region, including dog-headed people, a man without a head and his face on his chest, a man with a huge foot that is used like an umbrella, and flying dragons. Laurent Fries produced the woodblocks for this edition of Ptolemy's Geography in a reduced version of the Waldseemuller maps for the 1513 edition.

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Condition: A

Tissue repairs on short fold separations, not affecting the map.