1513 Waldseemuller 1st Ed. Map of France, Low Countries Start Price USD 3,750.00 Current Price USD 3,750.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, July 17, 2008 End Time Thursday, July 24, 2008 Location Successful Worldwide Shipping From Melbourne, See more about '1513 Waldseemuller 1st Ed. Map of France, Low Countries' Description Helpful Links:Company Details - About MEPayment & Shipping Options View seller's other itemsCartographer's ProfileAsk Seller a questionReturn PolicyAbout Classical Images   We have over 2,000 items for sale on our Ebay stores site. Please click here to enter the stores and use the search engine to the left to search specifically for maps, prints, Atlases on the Classical Images Stores, thank you Click Here   Tercia Euro De Tabula click image to enlarge click image to enlarge This finely engraved beautifully hand coloured original Ptolemaic map of France and The Low Countries was published in the 1513 1st edition of Martin Waldseemuller' s interpretation of Claude Ptolemy's Geographia.Maps from Waldseemuller' s original 1st edition do not come along very often and this is a beautiful example of a map from  the original 1st "Modern Atlas" ever published. Waldseemuller first issue of Geographia is known as the first modern atlas that contained not only ancient maps interpreted from Ptolemy but also modern contemporary maps that included some of the first maps of the New World. It remained the most authoritative work of its time until Sebastian Munster's Geographia in 1540 There are 5 known edition of Waldseemullers interpretation of Ptolemy's Geographia 1513 & 1520. 1522 with a reduction in size of the plates, 1525, 1535. Claude Ptolemy, a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer, living in Alexandria, assembled and codified his predecessors' cartographic theories including those of Strabo & Marinus of Tyre (c. AD 120) to whom he was especially indebted. In about AD 150 he published his Geographia, a work in 8 volumes, supposedly illustrated with a world map, 26 regional maps and a profusion of smaller maps. Although the text of the Geographia survived, no maps older than about the twelfth century have come down to us and, in consequence, we have no means of knowing whether the 'Ptolemy' maps on which we set so much store were, in fact, drawn by him or were the interpretations of later map makers using his text as a basis. In Europe the initial awakening of interest in geography arose from the revival of knowledge of Ptolemy's Geographia soon after the year 1400. Greek manuscript copies made in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries were brought by scholars to Italy from Constantinople and were subsequently translated into Latin and widely studied. This work coincided with, and was much influenced by, the development of printing techniques, particularly, of course, by the invention of movable-type printing by Gutenberg about 1450, which made possible for the first time the production of printed books in quantity. Apart from this factor, other more far-reaching influences were compelling the peoples of Western Europe to look beyond the horizon they had known for so many centuries. With the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 the Turks effectively closed Europe's trade routes to the East and shut off access to traditional sources of luxuries and precious metals from Asia and, above all, denied the supply of the spices which had become so important in the lives of ordinary people. Other factors often based on long-believed myths and legends added to the urge to break out into the unknown world.The interpretation of Ptolemy's text began mainly with the Italians Angelus, Beroaldus & Vadius in 1477 and was re-interpreted and re-issued by many over the next century by the likes Waldseemuller 1513, Gastaldi 1548, Mercator 1578 & Magini 1596. (Ref: Tooley; M&B; Dover) Please note all items auctioned are genuine, we do not sell reproductions. A Certificate of Authenticity (COA) can be issued on request.    Condition Report General Description:Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stablePaper color: - off whiteAge of map color: - Early Colors used: - Blue, orange, green, yellowGeneral color appearance: - AuthenticPaper size: - 23in x 14 3/4in (580mm x 370mm)Image size: - 23in x 14 3/4in (580mm x 370mm)Margins: - Min 0in (25mm) Imperfections:Margins: - Top and bottom margins cropped to printed borderPlate area: - Small professional repair to centerfoldVerso: - NoneOverall Quality (in Bold):Perfect/Fine/Very Good/Good/Fair/Poor  Martin Waldseemuller c. 1470-1518 Waldseemuller, born in Radolfzell, a village on what is now the Swiss shore of Lake Constance, studied for the church at Freiburg and eventually settled in St Die at the Court of the Duke of Lorraine, at that time a noted patron of the arts. There, in the company of likeminded savants, he devoted himself to a study of cartography and cosmography, the outcome of which was a world map on 12 sheets, now famous as the map on which the name 'America' appears for the first time. Suggested by Waldseemuuller in honour of Amerigo Vespucci (latinised: Americus Vesputius) whom he regarded, quite inexplicably, as the discoverer of the New World, the new name became generally accepted by geographers before the error could be rectified, and its use was endorsed by Mercator on his world map printed in 1538. Although only one copy is now known of Waldseemuller's map and of the later Carta Marina (1516) they were extensively copied in various forms by other cartographers of the day. Waldseemuuller is best known for his preparation from about 1507 onwards of the maps for an issue of Ptolemy's Geographia, now regarded as the most important edition of that work. Published by other hands in Strassburg in 1513, it included 20 'modern' maps and passed through a number of editions which are noted below. It remained the most authoritative work of its time until the issue of Munster's Geographia in 1 540 and Cosmographia in 1544.   Visa MasterCard Bankcard *PayPal Direct Bank Transfers & AUS$ Bank Drafts Please contact me to discuss other forms of payment Please also contact me before the end of the auction if you would like to discuss payment by instalments over an agreed period *(Please email your CC#, Expiry Date, full name on card & shipping address in two separate emails or alternatively you can fax or phone to the numbers below.)Australian buyers please add 10% GST    Shipping WorldwideAustralia Air Mail Courier1 Courier2* Express Insurance $10.00 US $30.00 US $12.00 US   2.75% min $6.00 US       $6.00 US 2.75% min $4.00 US *Courier #2: Available for all items 11in x 8 1/2in (280mm x 215mm) or smaller flat or folded along original folds Airmail shipping from Australia to Europe or the US takes approx. 5-7 days. EMS courier will take 3-5 days. 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