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Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru[m]que lustrationes.

Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1521?

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Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorū que lustrationes

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[St. Dié, France? : s.n., 1507]

NOTES
Relief shown pictorially.

First document known to name America.

Red ink grid on 2 sheets. Text applied over blank areas on 2 sheets. Manuscript annotations in the margin of 1 sheet.

All sheets bear a watermark of a triple pointed crown.

Two stamps on verso of upper left hand sheet: Fürstl. Waldburg Wolfegg'sches Kupferstichkabinett -- Furstl. Waldbg. Wolf. Bibliothek.

Exhibited: Rivers, edens, empires: Lewis & Clark and the revealing of America, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., July 24-Nov. 29, 2003.

Includes text and ill.

Printed surrogate in vault available for reference.

LC digital image is a composite map from the twelve separate sheets.

Scale [ca. 1:15,000,000 at equator] ; Ptolemy's second proj. (W 1800--E 1800/N 900--S 500).

SUBJECTS
World maps--Early works to 1800.
World.

MEDIUM
1 map on 12 sheets ; 128 x 233 cm., sheets 46 x 63 cm. or smaller.

CALL NUMBER
G3200 1507 .W3 Vault

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA

DIGITAL ID
(Composite Map) g3200 ct000725C http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3200.ct000725C
(Entire map) g3200 ct000725 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3200.ct000725

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