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Auction: 15040 - Antique Maps sale during the International Exhibition
Lot: 91

Maps
Asia
Malaya
1525 Tabula Undecima Asia, published by Iohannes Grieningerus, based on the concept of Malaya and Indochina by Ptolemy, 2nd century; 20½ x 15½ inches, hand-coloured with the sea painted in black-blue.

This woodblock is titled "India Extra Gangem" (India beyond the Ganges). The map is drawn in a revised conical projection and set in a trapezoidal frame and shows the region of southeast Asia with the Ganges River in the west, the "Sinae" (China) in the east, and southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, and China Sea. Relief is shown pictorially and includes names of places and natural features. In the margins there are latitudinal notes. Descriptive text in Latin within borders on verso.

Appears in the author's "Geographia", translated by Willibald Pirckheimer, with annotations by Joannes Regiomontanus.

Usual central reinforcement, unusually fine. Photo

Estimate
SG$1,000 to SG$1,500