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Auction: 15040 - Antique Maps sale during the International Exhibition
Lot: 166

Maps
Africa
North Africa
1511 Secunda Africae tabula by Bernado Silvani based on Ptolemy; 21½ x 15½ inches, printed in two colours.

Sylvanus' map of part of Tunisia, Lybia, Sicily and Sardinia is one of the earliest obtainable maps of the region and the first printed in two colours. The map appeared in Sylvanus' "Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini liber Geographicae ...", published in Venice in 1511. The Sylvanus edition of Ptolemy is one of the earliest to include maps with modern geographical updates.

Printed in two halves, this has been skillfully joined. Exceptionally fresh and fine. Photo

Estimate
SG$3,000 to SG$3,500