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[Gregorius Reisch (d. 1525)]
[Untitled World Map, Freiburg: J. Schott, 1503]. Woodcut world map surrounded by 12 windheads (lightly stained and spotted), 275 x 415mm. Shirley 22: "This is a rather crudely-drawn woodcut, decoratively enlivened by twelve individually-characterised windheads, of which one - Vulternus - is seen peering through a pair of spectacles. A caption across the traditional spit of land joining Africa to Asia acknowledges (in Latin) the disappearance of the classical world concept: 'Here is not land but sea, in which there are such islands not conceived of by Ptolemy.'"
[Untitled World Map, Freiburg: J. Schott, 1503]. Woodcut world map surrounded by 12 windheads (lightly stained and spotted), 275 x 415mm. Shirley 22: "This is a rather crudely-drawn woodcut, decoratively enlivened by twelve individually-characterised windheads, of which one - Vulternus - is seen peering through a pair of spectacles. A caption across the traditional spit of land joining Africa to Asia acknowledges (in Latin) the disappearance of the classical world concept: 'Here is not land but sea, in which there are such islands not conceived of by Ptolemy.'"
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