An important <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of China by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sothebys.com%2Fen%2Fsearch%3Fquery%3DMartin+Waldseem%C3%BCller&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Martin Waldseemüller</a>, the first 'modern' map of the region, which includes Tibet, Tartary and Japan.<ul><li>Martin Waldseemüller (German).</li><li>Ta. Superioris Indiae.</li><li>Lyons: Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel, 1535.</li><li>Hand colored woodcut.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Although it was published in an edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, it was not a reduction of a map from the Waldseemuller edition of 1513, but a new one prepared for a new Chronica mundi being written by Waldseemüller. The title, as above, is on the reverse, with a descriptive text in Latin surrounded by woodcut columns. Waldseemüller expanded the Ptolemaic map of the Far East by adding information on Tartary and Japan gleaned from the accounts of Marco Polo. Japan is a large island called Zipangri, a name derived from the Chinese 'Land of the Rising Sun', which Polo learned about from the Chinese, long before the first recorded European visit to Japan. The landing of the Portuguese Alvarado in Okinawa was in 1542, seven years after this map was printed.

Ta. Superioris Indiae | The First Map of China Printed in Europe

a German <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of Scandinavia, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Martin+W%C3%A4ldseem%C3%BCller&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Martin Wäldseemüller</a>.<ul><li>Martin Wäldseemüller (German).</li><li>Strasbourg: Johannes Schott, 1520.</li><li>Tabula Moderna Norbegie Et Gottie.</li><li>Colored woodcut.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A scarce woodcut map of Scandinavia, one of the extra modern maps in Waldseemuller's edition of of Claudius Ptolemy's 'Geographia.' It is a copy of the first printed map of the region, published in the Ulm edition of Ptolemy in 1482. Cities marked include 'Asto' (Oslo), 'Begensis' (Bergen), 'Nodrosia' (Nidaros) and 'Stauargerensis' (Stavanger). This map was first printed in 1513: this example dates from 1520, with all but one of the lines of letterpress text in the borders removed. Later edition of Waldseemuller's editions of Ptolemy used the smaller woodblock cut for Laurent Fries.

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