1561 Fine, Desirable Ruscelli Map Of South Africa For Sale

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1561 Ruscelli Map - Africa Nuova Tavola

Claudius Ptolemy, an Alexandrine Greek, is probably the greatest of all early geographers. Working out of Alexandria in the first century AD he wrote a geography that was only published in Europe in the mid 1400's. His work provided the first real printed maps and he was held in such high regard that few attempted to correct these thousand plus year old descriptions until the mid 1500's. This map comes from Ruscelli's 'Ptolemaeus La Geografia' which published new (Tabula Nova) mapsalong withmaps based on Ptolemy's writings.

Thisengravingfrom the 1561 edition ofRuscelli'satlas, is one of the Tabula Nova maps.

The map of shows Africa south of theGulf of Benin and the Horn of Africa.It names the kingdoms of Quiloa, Mombaca, Manicongo, Magadazo, Melinde, and Madagascar (S.Lorenzo), as well as the Cape of Good Hope, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe, Zeila. The sources of the Nile are found in several lakes near the Mountains of the Moon.

The map measures 9.5" by 7.5" with a centrefold (as issued), has later outline hand colouring, and is in very good condition.

Themap is guaranteed to be over 440 years old.

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