Martin Waldseemüller

WSM 01413

Western Europe - British Isles: England, Scotland, Ireland

„Tabula Nova Hibernie Anglie et Scotie“

Map of the British Isles with the coastline from Brittany (Bretagne) to Denmark, from the supplement of Ptolemy's „Geographia“ by Waldseemüller.

One of the first printed 'modern' maps of England, Scotland and Ireland. Waldseemüller revised the coastlines and added several towns, e.g. London at the Themse river.

Woodcut map from the supplement of the „Geographia“ by Martin Waldseemüller, published by Jakob Äschler and Georg Übelin, printed by Johannes Schott, Straßburg 1513, 36 x 51,5 cm (map size).

Perfect condition, wide margins.

€ 7.850,-

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