| Martin Waldseemuller | |
| Strassburg, 1513 Complete set of maps of Africa from Munster's 1542 Edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia : TABVLA PRIMA AFRICAE, TABVLA SECVNDA AFRICAE, TERTIA AFRICAE TABVLA, and TABVLA QVARTA AFRICAE
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This is a set of Martin Waldseemuller's Ptolemaic maps of Africa. The first three maps show northwest Africa (Morocco, etc.), northcentral Africa (Tunsia, Lybia, etc.), and northeast Africa with special attention to Egypt. The fourth map (TABVLA QVARTA AFRICAE) shows all of Africa known to the Mountain of the Moon in the south. The names of numerous cities and towns are shown along with geographical features. Alexandria, the home of the geographer Claudius Ptolemy, is identified. The map was produced for Waldseemuller's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia in 1513 with an unchanged re-issue in 1520. The publisher was Johanes Schott. This book was considered the most important edition of Ptolemy until Munster's Geographia in 1540.
Waldseemuller is
most famous for providing the name America, after Amerigo
Vespucci, to the "New World". Tooley calls Waldseemuller "the
most influential geographer of the early 16th century and his
work was copied or used by Apian, Frisius, Grynaeus, Munster,
Reisch, and Schoner" (Tooley, p. 121). Very Fine Condition,
especially considering the fact that these four maps are almost
500 years old!. Few old fingermarks at corners. A
little waterstaining to Tabula
Prima Africae with some reinforcement on verso and some
wormholes on bottom center margin. |
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