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Auction 92, Lot 307

"Tabula Asiae VI", Ruscelli, Girolamo

Subject: Asia

Period: 1561 (published)

Publication: Geographia

Color: Black & White

Size:
7.5 x 10 inches
19.1 x 25.4 cm
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Clean & strong impression from the first edition. Centered around Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf with Ethiopia and Somalia (here labeled Agipto). The Red Sea and Gulf of Adan fairly accurate, but place names are generally quite confusing.

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Condition: A

Estimate: $200 - $250

Sold for: $120

Closed on 9/13/2000

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