Details

Subject(s)

• Asia, Central—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Printer

Schott, Johann, 1477-1548 [Browse]

Related name

Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Maps—China—Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu—1520 [Browse]
• Maps—Central Asia—1520 [Browse]

Related work(s)

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

Notes

• Trapezoidal map of Central Asia and China. Relief shown pictorially.
• Includes names of places and natural features.
• In margin: latitudinal notes.
• From: Ptolemaeus auctus restitutus, emaculatus : cum tabulis veteribus ac nouis. [Strassburg] : Ioannes Scotus, Argentorati literis exce[r]pit, 1520.
• Martin Waldseemüller "edited an edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, Strasbourg, Johannes Schott 1513 ... not credited to Waldseemüller although he compiled a special supplement of 20 modern maps of 'tabulae novae' to accompany it."--Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers.

OCLC

857650350

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