Lot 299
  • 299

West Indies--[Waldseemüller, Martin.

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3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description

  • Untitled map of the West Indies and North Atlantic. Vienne: Gaspar Trechsel, 1541], double-page woodcut map, widest 286 x 418mm., short tear into map restored, manuscript underlining in text on verso

Literature

Burden, Mapping of North America 4

Catalogue Note

Lorenz Fries’ careful reduction of Waldseemüller’s ‘Tabula Terre Nove’, the first printed map “devoted to America to appear in an atlas” (Burden).