Old antique Ptolemy map of Southeast Asia by L. Fries after M. Waldseemüller. 1522
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)
Tabula XI Asiae.
Item Number: 6707 Authenticity Guarantee
Category: Antique maps > Asia > Southeast Asia
Old, antique Ptolemy map of Southeast Asia by M. Waldseemüller - L. Fries.
Date of the first edition: 1522
Date of this map: 1522
Woodcut
Size: 32 x 41cm (12.5 x 16 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Excellent.
Condition Rating: A+
References: Karrow 18/26.
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)
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)
Related items
Archipel des Indes Orientales qui Comprend les Isles de la Sonde, Moluques et Philippines. c. 1757
Southeast Asia, par Robert de Vaugondy.
[Item number: 4751]
From the Cloppenburg edition
Insulae Indiae Orientalis. 1630
Southeast Asia, by G. Mercator - J. Hondius.
[Item number: 25234]