France, by Lorenz Fries. 1525
On the reverse, the 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.
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References: Karrow - 28/32
Old, antique ptolemaic map of France, by Lorenz Fries.
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Cartographer: Martin Waldseemüller.
Date of the first edition: 1522.
Date of this map: 1525.
Woodcut, printed on paper.
Size (not including margins): 280 x 370mm (11.02 x 14.57 inches).
Verso: Latin text.
Condition: Lower margin water stained.
Condition Rating: .
References: Karrow, 28/32
From: L. Fries, Opus Geographiae. Strasbourg, J. Grüninger, 1525. (Karrow, 28/G.1; Shirley (Brit. Lib.), T.PTOL.7b))
On the reverse, the 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.