PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius. Sexta Asie Tabula, [Strasbourg: Johannis Schotti, 1513], woodcut map (very lightly stained at margins, minor repairs of verso), 320 x 550mm. [Tibbetts 13]

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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius. Sexta Asie Tabula, [Strasbourg: Johannis Schotti, 1513], woodcut map (very lightly stained at margins, minor repairs of verso), 320 x 550mm. [Tibbetts 13]

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"This early map of the Arabian peninsula is attributed to the famous geographer Martin Waldseemüller ... Degrees are given round the edge of the map in three rows, and divided into thirds and fourths of a degree ... [an] early and important map." (Stuart McMinn Catalogue)

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