Waldseemuller/Fries: [Iberian Peninsula]
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Cartographer:
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Waldseemuller/Fries
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Title:
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[Iberian Peninsula]
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Date:
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1541
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Published:
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Vienne
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Width:
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18 inches / 46 cm
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Height:
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13 inches / 34 cm
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Map ref:
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SP1534
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Description:
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Early woodcut Ptolemaic map of Spain and Portugal, from the 1541 Vienne edition of Ptolemy's "Geography" edited by Michael Servetus, published by Gaspar Treschel, and using woodblocks first produced by Laurent Fries in 1522.
Reference: [Karrow (R.W.): Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century 28/3] [SP1534] |