Asia, Eight Maps, c. 1548-1599.

Description:

Asia, Eight Maps, c. 1548-1599. Including five small-format engravings: Tabula Asiae IIII, Cyprus & the Arabian Peninsula, hand-colored; Tabula Asiae V, Persia, uncolored (two examples); Tabula Asiae VIII Tibet, engraved, uncolored, printed on a folio-format sheet with text; another version of Tabula Asiae VIII Tibet, engraved, with animals and figures in the margins and at the top, on octavo paper; [and] three double-page folio format woodcuts: Tabula Asiae III, ancient Colchis, Iberia, Albania, and Armenia, including a depiction of Noah's Ark, hand-colored; Tabula Asiae V, the Arabian Peninsula or Holy Land, uncolored; [and] Tabula Asiae VIII, India & Central Asia with exotic monsters and cannibals depicted in the margins. (8)
Estimate $300-500


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