1695 Gerard Mercator Antique Ptolemy Map of Caspian Sea Kazakhstan to Iran California he was appointed as one

he was appointed as one of the draughtsmen to the Macartney Embassy to China

the Rerum per octennium in Brasilia (1647) by the Remonstrant theologian Casper van Baerle (or Barlaeus) who died very soon afterwards in 1648

Ref #:  16447

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

Title : Le Jabiru

1695 Gerard Mercator Antique Ptolemy Map of Caspian Sea Kazakhstan to Iran California he was appointed as oneTitle : 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