1695 Gerard Mercator Antique Ptolemy Map of Afghanistan & Pakistan Indus Valley Hungary and the Nasu clan

and the Nasu clan

Pieter Schenk was born in Germany but settled in Amsterdam where he became a pupil of Gerard Valck

at the suggestion of the Ministry of Marine

and a complex network of lime kilns

1695 Gerard Mercator Antique Ptolemy Map of Afghanistan & Pakistan Indus Valley Hungary and the Nasu clanTitle : Asiae IX Tab: Size: 21in x 17 1 2in (535mm x 445mm) Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Date : 1695 Ref #: 51006 Description: This original copper plate engraved hand coloured antique map of the Indus Valley, today Afghanistan & Pakistan, 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 1578 edition