1695 Gerard Mercator Antique Ptolemy Map of India & Subcontinent Rome Upon the Endeavour's return to

Upon the Endeavour's return to England in July 1771

After death

remarking on the “rather curious” manner in which one end of the cloth “was held up over the girls heads while the remainder was wraped round them under the armpits

including trial by jury

& is known as the Father of water colour painting and also as an early pioneer of lithography

1695 Gerard Mercator Antique Ptolemy Map of India & Subcontinent Rome Upon the Endeavour's return toTitle : 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