An Early Woodcut Map of the Middle East

Middle East/ Arabia/ Persia..

MUNSTER, S./ PTOLEMY, C.

[Basel, c. 1550]

Untitled.

7 ½ x 6 ½ inches. (11 x 6 ½ inches with text). Fine hand color; margin extended on left with no loss, very good condition.

An attractive woodcut map of the Middle East, published in Munster’s Cosmographia. Though the map is not based strictly on the Ptolemaic projection found in Munster’s earlier editions of Geographia, the place names on it are classical; thus the map displays the region as it was understood at the time of the Roman Empire had achieved its furthest reach.

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