"Tabula Asiae VIII", Gastaldi, Giacomo
Subject: Central Asia
Period: 1548 (published)
Publication: Geographiae Claudii Ptolemaei…
Color: Black & White
Size:
6.7 x 5 inches
17 x 12.7 cm
Gastaldi's Ptolemaic map of Central Asia includes the northern reaches of the Ganges in northern India. Numerous ancient kingdoms, many from myth and legend, are depicted. Magnus Tartarus is seated in his throne at upper right and a gruesome scene of cannibalism places Anthropophagi (man-eaters) north of Serica and the Anibae Mons. The map was published in the first pocket-sized edition of Ptolemy's Geography.
References: Mickwitz & Miekkavaara (Nordenskiold) #215-47.
Condition: B+
There are some tiny worm holes in the blank margins with two in the bottom border.
