Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

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.Taprobana Ins. Tabula XII Asiae. [Sri Lanka.]

Ptolemy's mythical island of Taprobana originally became associated with Sri Lanka although it was sometimes confused with Sumatra. Taprobana, as it was called on most ea...

$2200 / ≈ €2059

Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C.
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535

[Taprobana - Sri Lanka]

Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Ceylon prepared Martin Waldseemüller.Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 published in "P...

$2200 / ≈ €2059

Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C . / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541

Tabula Asiae XII (Sri Lanka, with Elephant)

The FIRST edition of Munster's first modern map of Sri Lanka, which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographia was a new ...

$300 / ≈ €281

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545

Tabula Asiae XII. (Sri Lanka)

Gastaldi's map showing Sri Lanka, based upon Ptolemy's twelfth map of Asia depicting Taprobana. With a decorative scene with elephant and descriptive text next to the map...

$250 / ≈ €234

Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548