Aphricae tabula I

Description:

Map of Mauritania; relief shown pictorially. Text within border on verso: Aphricae tabula prima. 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/4633504

Identifier:

ark:/88435/8s45qb62h

Language:

lat

Creator:

Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552

Publisher:

[Basle : Sebastian Münster, 1540?]

Provider:

Princeton

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Digital maps

Subject:

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

Spatial Coverage:

Africa, North and Mauritania

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

TIFF