Tabula Terre Nove

Tabula Terre Nove

Atlantic Ocean -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
West Indies -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
America
Atlantic Ocean
West Indies
Early works
Maps

ncludes area between 44° N and 34° S.
Attributed to Ptolemy and M. Waldseemüller.
From: Ptolemy, C. Geographia.
Gift, John Rowe and B.B. Barre, 2003.
"Martin Waldseemüller 'Tabula Terra Nova' from Claudius Ptolemaeus Geographia, Strasbourg, 1513. One of twenty maps containing new information gathered from many travels and voyages of discovery, which earned the work the title of 'first modern atlas of the world.' It was also the first printed map to show part of America."--Cf. Martin Waldseemüller 'Tabula Terra Nova' WWW site / British Library Board, August 22, 2012 (http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/images/americasoes/large14908.html)

Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1519)

[Strassburg] : [Johannes Schott?]

1513?

Ptolemy, active 2nd century.

Scale approximately 1:14,500,000.
1 map ; 37 x 45 cm on sheet 44 x 61 cm

Latin

G9100 15--