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Martin Waldseemuller | Tabula terre nove. [Strassburg, 1513]

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

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Martin Waldseemuller

Tabula terre nove. [Strassburg, 1513]

 

420 x 550mm., double-page woodcut map of the Atlantic including the New World

 

THE FIRST MAP DEVOTED TO AMERICA ("Tabula terre nove") TO BE INCLUDED IN AN ATLAS, often termed "the Admiral's map", named after Columbus.

 

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


LITERATURE: 

Burden, Mapping of North America 3

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