Girolamo Ruscelli - Vincenzo Valgrisi

LN 3848

Central and Eastern Asia > Northern India, Nepal, Tibet, Himalaya

"Tabula Asiae VIII."

Map of Northern India with the sources of the Ganges, of the Himalayas and of the Tibetan Plateau up to the sources of the Oechardes river (?Huang He or Yellow River). In the style of Ptolemy.

Etching from a Geography of Ptolemy edited by Girolamo Ruscelli, printed and published by Vincenzo Valgrisi, Venice 1561, 18,5 x 24,5 cm.

€ 220,-

Maps by Italian mapmakers of the 16th century are worked out very fine and are famous for their elegant design. Remained copies are quite rare. Zögner, Imago Germaniae, p 14.

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