1695 Gerard Mercator Antique Ptolemy Map of Caspian Sea Kazakhstan to Iran California Ref #: 16447

Ref #:  16447

Plate size: - 12 1/2in x 8 1/2in (320mm x 220mm)

with the state's 'Pastoral Districts' delineated

Ref #: 70025

or one closely resembling it

1695 Gerard Mercator Antique Ptolemy Map of Caspian Sea Kazakhstan to Iran California Ref #: 16447Title : Asiae VII tab: Size: 21in x 17 1 2in (535mm x 445mm) Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Date : 1695 Ref #: 51009 Description: This original copper plate engraved hand coloured antique Ptolemy map of the eastern Caspian Sea from Kazakhstan to Iran, after Claude Ptolemy's Geographia was published in the Helma Strick edition of Geographia in 1695. These maps, after the 1st century text by Claude Ptolemy, were first published by Gerard Mercator in