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Creator:
Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470–1519
Title(s):
Die Weltkarten Waldseemüllers (Ilacomilus) 1507 & 1516 = The world maps of Waldseemüller (Ilacomilus) 1507 & 1516 / J. Fischer & F. v. Wieser.
Additional Title(s):

World maps of Waldseemüller (Ilacomilus) 1507 & 1516

Älteste Karte mit dem Namen Amerika aus dem Jahre 1507 un die Carta Marina aus dem Jahre 1516 des M. Waldseemüller (Ilacomilus)

Oldest map with the name America of the year 1507 and the Carta marina of the year 1516 by M. Waldseemüller (Ilacomilus)
Published/Created:
Innsbruck : Verlag der Wagner'schen Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1903.
Physical Description:
2 maps on 24 sheets ; 127 x 230 cm., sheets 44 x 62 cm. or smaller and 122 x 227 cm., sheets 45 x 62 cm. or smaller, in portfolio 64 x 54 cm and 1 volume ([8], 55 pages) ; 53 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B 2015 9 Copy 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B 2015 9 Copy 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12444281
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:15,000,000 at equator] -- Ptolemy's second proj. -- (W 180°--E 180°/N 90°--S 50°). and Scale [ca. 1:15,000,000 at equator] -- Mercator proj. -- (W 180°--E 180°/N 90°--S 50°).
Notes:
Relief shown pictorially.
Title from title sheet.
Includes text and ill.
Accompanied by textual volume: Die älteste Karte mit dem Namen Amerika aus dem Jahre 1507 un die Carta Marina aus dem Jahre 1516 des M. Waldseemüller (Ilacomilus) / herausgegeben mit Unterstützung der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien von Jos. Fischer und Fr. R. v. Wieser = The oldest map with the name America of the year 1507 and the Carta marina of the year 1516 by M. Waldseemüller (Ilacomilus) / edited with the assistance of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Vienna by Jos. Fischer and Fr. R. v. Wieser. Innsbruck : Wagner'schen Universitäts-Buchhandlung ; London : Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles [distributor], 1903.
Accompanied by publisher's advertisement: Facsimiles of the recently discovered Waldseemuller maps of 1507 and 1516. 6 p. : col. ill. ; 52 cm.
Original version of the 1507 map: Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorū que lustrationes. [St. Dié, France? : s.n., 1507].
Original version of the 1516 map: Carta marina, navigatoria Portugallen, navigationes atque tocius cogniti orbis terre marisque formam naturamq[u]e situs et terminos nostris temporibus recognitos et ab antiquorum traditione differentes eciam quor[um] vetusti non meminerunt auctores hec generaliter indicat / consumatum est in oppido S. Deodati compositione et digestione Martini Waldseemuller Ilacomili. [St. Dié, France? : s.n., 1516].
Subject Terms:
World maps -- Early works to 1800 -- Facsimiles.
World maps.
Form/Genre:
Early works.
Facsimiles.
Contributors:
Fischer, Joseph, 1858–1944.
Wieser, Franz, Ritter von, 1848–1923.
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