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Author(s):
Publisher:
[Basle : Sebastian Münster, 1540?]
Access:
Public
Description:
Map of Mauritania; relief shown pictorially. Text within border on verso: Aphricae tabula prima. From "Ptolemy's Geographia edited by Sebastian Münster (Basle, 1540, 1545, 1550, 1552). Woodcut, with place names printed from metal type." "Mountains are overlapping cones, shaded on the west." - Skelton. Decorative printed maps. p. 40. see pl. 5 at end.
Place(s):
Africa, North and Mauritania
Subject(s):
Africa, North—Maps, Mauritania—Maps, Maps—Africa, North—1540, and Maps—Mauritania—1540
Call number:
HMC01.413
Held by:
Princeton: Historic Map Division, Special Collections, Firestone Library
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