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• Date: 1578-1720
• Condition: AAA.
• Colour: Hand colour.
• Size: 47 x 34 cms

Title: 'Asiae Tab.VI'.

Finely engraved, this classical map of the Arabia peninsula after Ptolemy from the renowned Gerhard Mercator.

The map shows the Gulf of Persia in an almost rectangular form, a distinctive feature of Ptolemy’s geography, and has present-day Saudi defined in its three traditional sub-divisions "Arabia Foelix", occupying the greater part, "... Deserte" and "... Petrea" in the north. A large decorative cartouche.