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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 124 - closed 5/7/2008

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Lot #492: "[Germania]" Waldseemuller/Fries

Antique map chart Germania
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Estimate:
$250.00 - $325.00
Sold for: $190.00

Lot 492
By: Waldseemuller/Fries
Subject: Europe - Central
Date: 1541

Publication: Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae Enarrationis…

Condition: B
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Color: uncolored

Size: 12.5 x 11.5 inches
31.8 x 29.3 cm

This woodblock "modern" map of central Europe presents the region with distorted Ptolemaic outlines and shows mountains in a typical rope-like shape. In this map, Fries has added a vignette of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, not included in Waldsemuller's model. This edition was published in Vienna by Gaspar Trechsel. Latin text on verso.

The map has a sharp impression. There are some repaired worm tracks in the margins and a couple small filled worm holes along the centerfold.


Ref: Mickwitz & Miekkavaara (Nordenskiold) #211-32.

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