Lot 197
  • 197

North America--Waldseemüller, Martin.

Estimate
30,000 - 35,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Tabula terre nove. [Strassburg, 1513], 460 x 560mm., double-page woodcut map of the world, old colour

Literature

Burden, The Mapping of North America, 3

Condition

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Catalogue Note

the first map entirely devoted to america from an atlas .

Tabula terre nove, often termed "the Admiral's map", named after Columbus. who has been often cited as the source of this map. However, the map shows more detail than just the discoveries made during the voyages of 1492-1493; it also has information taken from Waldseemüller's own world map of 1507. That map gave Vespucci credit for the discovery of the Americas, but in the present map Waldseemüller has placed the legend "Hec terra cum adiacent[ibus] insulis inuenta est per Columbu[m] ianuensem ex mandata Regis Castelle" in honour of Columbus.