1695 Gerard Mercator Antique Ptolemy Map of India & Subcontinent Peru The name Allemagne for Germany

The name Allemagne for Germany and the other similar-sounding names above are derived from the southern Germanic Alemanni

it is the first full representation of it in print

The business was continued by his son

Dedicated to Philip III of Spain it is a history of the New World to date

Some biographers have assumed that he suffered some of the misfortunes assigned to his hero Des Grieux

1695 Gerard Mercator Antique Ptolemy Map of India & Subcontinent Peru The name Allemagne for GermanyTitle : Asiae X Tab: Size: 21in x 17 1 2in (535mm x 445mm) Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Date : 1695 Ref #: 51008 Description: This original copper plate engraved hand coloured antique Ptolemy map of India & Subcontinent, after Claude Ptolemy's Geographia was published in the Helma Strick edition of Geographia in 1695. These maps, after the 1st century text by Claude Ptolemy, were first published by Gerard Mercator in 1578 edition of Geographia by