"Tabula Asiae VIII (Central Asia)" complete with monsters, by Munster, printed in Basle in 1545

Source: http://www.raremaps.com/cgi-bin/map-builder.cgi?Asia+India+2615
(downloaded Oct. 1999)

"Tabula Asiae XI" (Bengal and Southeast Asia), from Giacomo Gastaldi, 'Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alexandrino' (Venice, Pedrezano, 1548)

*"Tabula Asiae VIII (Central Asia)," from Geographiae Universae Tum Veteris Tum Novae Absolutissium by Giovanni Magini, 1620; with modern hand coloring*

*"Tabula Asiae IX (Pakistan)," a map from Munster's edition of Ptolemy's 'Geographia', 1540*

*A small and jumbled Ptolemaic map of India, c.1500's*

"Tabula Asiae IX" (Afghanistan area), from Mercator's Ptolemaic 'Geographia' atlas, 1584; with modern hand coloring; another, later version of the same map, from the 1600's: *Tabula Asiae IX*: *northwest*; *northeast*; *southwest*; *southeast*