1653 Janssonius: Peutinger Table - Roman World Road Map Start Price USD 2,200.00 Current Price USD 2,200.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, November 19, 2008 End Time Wednesday, November 26, 2008 Location New York, NY See more about '1653 Janssonius: Peutinger Table - Roman World Road Map' Description (Jansson.) JANSSONIUS, J. Tabula Itineraria ex illustri Peutingerorum Bibliotheca Quae Auguste Vindelicorum. Copperplate, engraved map of the Roman world, published in Amsterdam, 1653 (7.5. x .159.4 inches.) In 8 segments, each pasted on a large stub of similarly aged paper, and bound in marbled-covered heavy wrappers. Binding dates from about 1750, I would estimate. Fine engraved bookplate of LLOYD ARNOLD BROWN, a pillar of scholarship in the history of cartography. The booklet is 11" x 8". Wrappers are worn around the edges and somewhat faded, but very good, all things considered. With the exception of a couple of forward edge folds, which protrude, and are browned, the maps are excellent. A very fresh appearance and feel. The 8 sheets make up the famous Peutinger Table, or a Roman road map of the world, ca. 250AD with some later additions from c.500AD. Konrad Peutinger, a sixteenth-century German humanist after whom the table is named, once owned the only surviving Peutinger manuscript. The map depicts the imperial roads and posts within the Roman Empire throughout Europe, North Africa and Asia as far as Toprobana (Sri Lanka). These maps, based on the original manuscript, were first popularized by Ortelius in 1598 and became an important part of his great historical atlas. Jansson's version is nearly identical to that of Ortelius. The Peutinger Map was primarily drawn to show main roads, totaling some 70,000 Roman miles (104,000 km), and to depict features such as staging posts, spas, distances between stages, large rivers, and forests (represented as groups of trees). The proportions of the Peutinger Map are such that distances east-west are represented at a much larger scale than distances north-south, for example, Rome looks as though it were nearer to Carthage than Naples is to Pompeii. The archetype may well have been on a papyrus roll, designed for carrying around in a capsa [tool box]. As such, its width would be severely limited, whereas its length would not. In the extant map a north-south road tends to appear at only a slightly different angle from an east-west one, and distances are calculated not by the map's scale but by adding up the mileages of successive staging posts. Shirley, Mapping Of The World, 393. High bidder pays 12.00 shipping. ***************************************************************************************************************** click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge Place a Bid!