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Auction 93, Lot 316
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"Taprobana Ins.", Ptolemy/Fries

Subject: Sri Lanka

Period: 1535-41 (published)

Publication: Ptolemy's Geographia

Color: Black & White

Size:
14 x 11 inches
35.6 x 27.9 cm
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Great early woodblock map of the island of Ceylon. The map is largely based on the 1513 map by Walseemuller, with the addition of more of the spurious Indian coastline and more small islands to the east of Ceylon. The compiler of this edition, Michael Servetus, was subsequently tried for heresy and burned at the stake in 1553, ostensibly because of derogatory comments in the atlas about the Holy Land.

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Condition: A

Crisp, dark impression on fine paper with wide margins.

Estimate: $700 - $800

Sold for: $700

Closed on 12/6/2000

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