AGSL GeoDiscovery

Aphricae tabula III

Description:

Relief shown pictorially. Text within border on verso: Aegyptum, Marmaricam et Cyrenaicam, continet haec tertia Africæ tabula ... From "Ptolemy's Geographia edited by Sebastian Münster (Basle, 1540, 1545, 1550, 1552). Woodcut, with place names printed from metal type." "Mountains are overlapping cones, shaded on the west." - Skelton. Decorative printed maps. p. 40. see pl. 5 at end.

Resource Link:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9946335133506421

Identifier:

ark:/88435/5425kc52c

Language:

la and Latin

Creator:

Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552

Publisher:

[Basle : Sebastian Münster, 1540?]

Provider:

Princeton

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Image

Subject:

Africa, North—Maps, Maps—Africa, North—1540, and Maps

Theme:

Africa, North—Maps, Maps—Africa, North—1540, and Maps

Spatial Coverage:

Africa, North

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

TIFF