Fine old color example of the rare first edition of De Jode's map of the Holy Land. The map is based upon the map of Tilemannus Stella and is oriented with west at the top. The shoreline is irregular and runs from Tirus to Beersheba. The Dead Sea is a...
![Africae ut terra mariq[ue], lustrata est, propiissima ac vere genuina descriptio, observatis ad unguem gradibus longitudinis et latitudinis. Autore M. Iacobo Castaldo](/map/small/55794.jpg)
Rare old color example of De Jode's first map of Africa, from the 1578 edition of his Speculum Orbis Terrarum. The map is divided into two sections and includes an elephant, lions, battle scene, sailing ships and palm trees. The map is based on the...
Nice full color example of Mercator's Ptolemaic map of North Africa. While Mercator is perhaps most famous for his maps of the Modern World, one of his life ambitions was to write an improved and corrected edition of Ptolemy's Geographia.
