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Title Universalis tabula iuxta Ptolemaeum [cartographic material]
Creator Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594.
Contributor Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594. Tabulae Geographicae Cl. Ptolomaei ad mentem autoris restitutae & emendatae.
Ptolemy, 2nd cent. Geographica. Latin.
Publisher [Coloniae Agrippinae [Germany] : Typus Godefridi Kempensis, anno Virginei Partus 1578].
Subject World maps -- Maps.
World -- 1578 -- Maps.
Coverage 1578
Description Map of the ancient world covering Europe, North Africa, Middle East and most of Asia in Mercator's revised style of Ptolemy's Geographia. The map is surrounded by a decorative border with twelve named windheads. Some relief is shown pictorially.; Probaby [map 1] from: Tabulae Geographicae Cl. Ptolomaei ad mentem autoris restitutae & emendatae / per Gerhardum Mercatorem. Coloniae Agrippinae [Germany] : Typus Godefridi Kempensis, anno Virginei Partus 1578.; Shirley, 1983, 139.; Koeman/Van der Krogt, 1:501, 1; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm148; Library's copy was acquired mounted on a larger sheet, obscuring the title at the top of the map and the additional backing obscuring the verso of the map.
Format 1 map ; 32.3 x 45.8 cm.
Date 1578
Type Image
Source Item held by National Library of Australia
Rights You may save or print this image for research and study. If you wish to use it for any other purposes, you must contact the <a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/copyright.html">National Library of Australia</a> to request permission.
Identifier nla.map-rm148
http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm148
Geographic Terms Europe
Africa
Middle East [Middle East]
Coloniae
Germany [Germany]
Australia