Old antique Ptolemy map of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) by L. Fries after M. Waldseemüller. 1522
Tabula XII Asiae.
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Old, antique Ptolemy map of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) by L. Fries after M. Waldseemüller.
Date of the first edition: 1522
Date of this map: 1522
Woodcut
Size: 31.5 x 45cm (12.3 x 17.6 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Excellent
Condition Rating: A+
References: Karrow, 28/27.
Differences with the later editions: the title appears in a decorative scroll outside the top border of the map and there is text on the reverse within elaborate borders..
From: L. Fries, Opus Geographiae. Strasbourg, J. Grüninger, 1522. (Shirley (Brit. Lib.), T.PTOL.7a))
In 1522 Laurent Fries published an edition of Ptolemy's Geography in which all off the maps, including this one, were reduced versions of Waldseemüller's, 1513. On the reverse, text is contained within elaborate Renaissance woodcut panels which may have been designed by Albrecht Dürer, the known contributor to diagrams elsewhere in the atlas. (Shirley)
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