"Asiae I Tab", Ptolemy/Mercator

A fine Ptolemaic map of Turkey and Cyprus showing its ancient political divisions. Mercator originally published this map in his 1578 edition of Ptolemy's great Geography. Although he is most renowned today for the projection he popularized and for first using the term Atlas for a collection of maps, he devoted much of his life to his Ptolemaic maps. The maps were beautifully engraved as nearly as possible to their original form and embellished with fine cartouches. This map includes two fierce sea monsters in the Mediterranean Sea.

References: Mickwitz & Miekkavaara (Nordenskiold) #232-17.

Condition: B+

There are some faint grid marks within the map. The map has been resized and is a bit stiff.