1695 Gerard Mercator Antique Ptolemy Map of Afghanistan & Pakistan Indus Valley Pakistan the Dutch Republic

the Dutch Republic

all five of the Great Lakes

giving it strategic importance from a military viewpoint

Verso: - Backed in linen

the African Cuffy led a revolt in Guyana which was bloodily suppressed by the Dutch

1695 Gerard Mercator Antique Ptolemy Map of Afghanistan & Pakistan Indus Valley Pakistan the Dutch RepublicTitle : Asiae IX Tab: Size: 21in x 17 1 2in (535mm x 445mm) Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Date : 1695 Ref #: 51006 Description: This original copper plate engraved hand coloured antique map of the Indus Valley, today Afghanistan & Pakistan, 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