Waldseemüller, Martin

Tabula Moderna Italie

Strasbourg: Johann Schott, 1513.

Woodcut map (17 1/2" x 23") with climate and parallel zones in the Ptolemaic tradition. One of the earilest maps of Italy based on modern toponymy rather than classical place names.

Fine, with some tanning along the lower edge.

The present map of Italy is part of the "Supplementum Modernior" which Nordenskiold calls the first modern atlas of the world. Cf. Waldseemüller in the introduction to his Pars Secunda: "We have confined the Geography of Ptolemy to the first part of the work, in order that its antiquity may remain intact and separate."

Item #6BD0051

Price: $18,000