Tabula noua partis Africæ

Description:

Covers Africa south of the equator. Relief shown pictorially. Watermark: Bunch of grapes. On verso: 39. From: Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae enarrationis ... Prostant Lugduni [Lyon] : Apud Hugonem à Porta, 1541. Colophon: Excudebat Gaspar Trechsel Viennae. Lorenz Fries "worked with the Strasbourg printer J. Grüninger on a new edition of Ptolemy's Geographia (with woodcut maps reduced from M. Waldseemüller), Strasbourg, 1522 (the maps were re-used in versions edited by W. Pirkheimer, published Strasbourg, J. Grüninger, Nuremberg, J. Koberger 1525, Lyons, M. & G. Trechsel 1535, Lyons, G. Trechsel 1541, etc."--Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers, vol. 2, p. 113.

Creator:

Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519

Publisher:

[Lyon : Gaspar Trechsel, 1541]

Provider:

Princeton

Resource Type:

Satellite imagery

Subject:

Africa, Southern—Maps—Early works to 1800 and Maps—Africa, Southern—1541

Spatial Coverage:

Africa, Southern

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

TIFF

More details at:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/4846101