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WALDSEEMUELLER, Martin (ca 1470-1518). [North America.] Tabula Terre nove. [Strassburg, 1513].
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WALDSEEMUELLER, Martin (ca 1470-1518). [North America.] Tabula Terre nove. [Strassburg, 1513].
Woodcut map of the Americas, image 369 x 445 mm (446 x 609 mm sheet). (Two small wormholes, strengthened at fold, small repair to upper center-fold with some light dampstaining.)
THE FIRST MAP IN A PRINTED ATLAS EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED TO AMERICA. Waldseemueller's map made considerable geographical advances, basing their information on reports of Spanish and Portuguese voyages. In the preface to the reader of the atlas, the map of the New World is described as being based on information supplied by "The Admiral," identified as Columbus on this map: “Hec terra cum adiacent[ibus] insulis inuenta est per Columbu[m] ianuensem ex madata Regis Castelle.” (“This land with its adjacent islands was discovered by Columbus, sent by authority of the King of Castile.”) The map first appeared in Claudius Ptolemaeus Geographiae opus novissima traductione e Grecorum archetypis castigatissime pressum, translated from the Greek into Latin by Mathias Ringmann, Strassburg: Johannes Schott, 12 March 1513. Burden 3; Schwartz & Ehrenberg pl.8; Suarez Shedding the Veil 16; see World Encompassed 56.
Woodcut map of the Americas, image 369 x 445 mm (446 x 609 mm sheet). (Two small wormholes, strengthened at fold, small repair to upper center-fold with some light dampstaining.)
THE FIRST MAP IN A PRINTED ATLAS EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED TO AMERICA. Waldseemueller's map made considerable geographical advances, basing their information on reports of Spanish and Portuguese voyages. In the preface to the reader of the atlas, the map of the New World is described as being based on information supplied by "The Admiral," identified as Columbus on this map: “Hec terra cum adiacent[ibus] insulis inuenta est per Columbu[m] ianuensem ex madata Regis Castelle.” (“This land with its adjacent islands was discovered by Columbus, sent by authority of the King of Castile.”) The map first appeared in Claudius Ptolemaeus Geographiae opus novissima traductione e Grecorum archetypis castigatissime pressum, translated from the Greek into Latin by Mathias Ringmann, Strassburg: Johannes Schott, 12 March 1513. Burden 3; Schwartz & Ehrenberg pl.8; Suarez Shedding the Veil 16; see World Encompassed 56.