1695 Gerard Mercator Antique Ptolemy Map of Caspian Sea Kazakhstan to Iran Norway This very large original copper

This very large original copper plate engraved map a sea chart of The Celtic Sea

for a variety of historical and commercial reasons

Along the imaginary eastern coastline is a note that reads: "I suppose that the land of Diemen can join with the land of the Holy Ghost

was published by Joan Blaeu in the 1638 French edition of Atlas Nouvs

1695 Gerard Mercator Antique Ptolemy Map of Caspian Sea Kazakhstan to Iran Norway This very large original copperTitle : 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