Quarta Asiae Tabula.

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $450

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(PTOLEMY).

Place

Rome, first edition 1507 (later issue).

Description

Double-page woodcut map.

references

Laor 605.

summary

Shows much of the Middle East, from Cyprus to the Persian Gulf. An imagined peninsula extends from Jaffa to Gaza while the Carmel mountain range extends from the ocean to the Jordan. Jerusalem is marked with a cross.

16 x 22 inches (40 x 56 cm) to mat. Finely framed.

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