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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-04-02. Paperback. Good.
Taprobana by Johannes Honter - 1561
by Johannes Honter
Taprobana
by Johannes Honter
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Scarce wood cut map of Sumatra, entitled Taprobana, the name of Ptolemy's mythical island. Published in Johannes Honter's Rudimenta cosmographica. Printed in Basel by Henri Petri.
Title: Taprobana
Date: 1561
Size: 12.0 x 7.5 cm
Sheet size: 31.5 x 20.5 cm
Verso: Text in latin including two wood cut illustrations, one of them showing cannibals butchering a corpse.
Condition: Good (G)
Title: Taprobana
Date: 1561
Size: 12.0 x 7.5 cm
Sheet size: 31.5 x 20.5 cm
Verso: Text in latin including two wood cut illustrations, one of them showing cannibals butchering a corpse.
Condition: Good (G)
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- Book Condition Used
- Quantity Available 1
- Date Published 1561
- Keywords Antique map Sumatra