Details

Subject(s)

• Africa, Southern—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Related name

Fries, Lorenz, 1491-1550 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Maps—Africa, Southern—1541 [Browse]

Related work(s)

Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Geographia. Latin [Browse]

Notes

• Covers Africa south of the equator.
• Relief shown pictorially.
• Watermark: Bunch of grapes.
• On verso: 39.
• From: Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae enarrationis ... Prostant Lugduni [Lyon] : Apud Hugonem à Porta, 1541. Colophon: Excudebat Gaspar Trechsel Viennae.
• Lorenz Fries "worked with the Strasbourg printer J. Grüninger on a new edition of Ptolemy's Geographia (with woodcut maps reduced from M. Waldseemüller), Strasbourg, 1522 (the maps were re-used in versions edited by W. Pirkheimer, published Strasbourg, J. Grüninger, Nuremberg, J. Koberger 1525, Lyons, M. & G. Trechsel 1535, Lyons, G. Trechsel 1541, etc."--Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers, vol. 2, p. 113.

References

Norwich, I. Maps of Africa (2nd ed.) 150 (1535 ed., with title and scrollwork above map which identify Lyons as place of publication)

Other title(s)

Tabula nova partis Africae

OCLC

74217844

Universal Product Code

HM2007-8

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