Quae intus continentur. Syria, ad Ptolomaici operis rationem. Præterea Strabone, Plinio, & Antonio auctoribus locupletata. Palestina, iisdem auctoribus. .
A 1532 Strasbourg geography book by Jacob Ziegler, printed by Peter Opilio, issued for scholars and readers of classical geography. Its woodcut maps of Syria and Palestine are dense with coastlines, rivers, mountain ranges and hundreds of tiny place names, with wavy hatched lines for water and sea. A designer might borrow the engraved contour hatching and the dense, labelled lettering as a texture for antique cartographic patterns.
