WALDSEEMULLER, MARTIN. C.1470-C.1522. Quarta Asiae tabula. [Strasbourg: 1513.] Woodblock map with later hand-coloring, 390 x 540 mm. Hinge reinforced, some overpaint to lettering. Based on the work of Claudius Ptolemy (c.90-168 A.D.), the Waldseemuller map of Asia, while not correct, is certainly familiar to modern eyes: Cyprus sits in the Mediterranean Sea off the shore from Syria and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, and the Arabia Deserta extending eastward.
WALDSEEMULLER, MARTIN. C.1470-C.1522. Quarta Asiae tabula. [Strasbourg: 1513.] Woodblock map with later hand-coloring, 390 x 540 mm. Hinge reinforced, some overpaint to lettering. Based on the work of Claudius Ptolemy (c.90-168 A.D.), the Waldseemuller map of Asia, while not correct, is certainly familiar to modern eyes: Cyprus sits in the Mediterranean Sea off the shore from Syria and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, and the Arabia Deserta extending eastward.
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