Tabula Aphricae III (North Africa) northeast

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Tabula Aphricae III (North Africa) northeast

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*"Calecut Nuova Tavola" (the Deccan and the South), a map by Girolamo Ruscelli, published by Girodano Ziletti, Venice, 1561 and later editions: *a closeup of the South*
frontispiece to the 1574 edition*; *the whole map, 1574 ed.*: *northwest*; *northeast*; *southwest*; *southeast*; *a closeup of the Deccan*.
More maps from the same set, both Ptolemaic and updated, 1574 ed. unless otherwise marked, some with modern hand coloring:

"These maps were published in the 1574 edition of Girolamo Ruscelli`s 'La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo'. Girolamo Ruscelli's Italian translation of Ptolemy's 'Geographia', revised by Giovanni Malombra, contained 27 maps based on the text of Ptolemy and 38 maps of the modern world by Ruscelli."

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