Ptolemy; Girolamo Ruscelli

Tabula Asiae II / [verso:] Del l'Asia, Tavola seconda antica

Venice: Ruscelli, c. 1574. Notes: Italian text on verso.
Map of the ancient region of Asiatic Sarmatia.
Girolamo Ruscelli (1518–1566) was an Italian mathematician and cartographer active in Venice during the early 16th century. He was also an alchemist, writing pseudonymously as Alessio Piemontese.
Claudius Ptolemy, better known mononymously as Ptolemy, was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science., Size : 188x262 (mm), 7.40x10.31 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Russia;. Very Good;. Item #M7272

Notes: Italian text on verso., Size : 188x262 (mm), 7.40x10.31 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Russia;.

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