![FRIES, Lorenz (1508-1555) -- APIAN, Peter (1495-1552). Mappa mundi oft generael Carte der Werelt. [Antwerp: 1545 or later]. Double-page woodcut map (restored along fold with some use of pen-and-ink facsimile), 228 x 294mm.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_04826_0141_001(fries_lorenz_--_apian_peter_mappa_mundi_oft_generael_carte_der_werelt_d5548861022529).jpg?w=1)
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FRIES, Lorenz (1508-1555) -- APIAN, Peter (1495-1552). Mappa mundi oft generael Carte der Werelt. [Antwerp: 1553 or later]. Double-page woodcut map (restored along fold with some use of pen-and-ink facsimile), 228 x 294mm.
First included in Apian's Cosmographia in 1544, this small cordiform world map was reportedly based on a larger, now lost map by Fries. It is noticeable that North America, labelled 'Baccalearum' in reference to the cod fishing, has shrunk to a slender peninsula. The one river to be marked is the Nile, leaving the map dominated by the winds and deities which fill its borders. Shirley 96.
First included in Apian's Cosmographia in 1544, this small cordiform world map was reportedly based on a larger, now lost map by Fries. It is noticeable that North America, labelled 'Baccalearum' in reference to the cod fishing, has shrunk to a slender peninsula. The one river to be marked is the Nile, leaving the map dominated by the winds and deities which fill its borders. Shirley 96.
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The map is 1553 or later, and the Shirley reference is 96 (not 82).