Girolamo Ruscelli - Vincenzo Valgrisi

LN 4048

Southern Asia > India, Pakistan

"Tabula Asiae X."

Map of the area of India and Pakistan between the Indus and Ganges. 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 cm.

€ 280,-

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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