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Waldseemuller Map of Germania
Estimate:
$4,000 - $6,000
Passed
Live Auction
Arader Galleries December 11, 2021 Auction
Description
[Europe, Germany]
WALDSEEMULLER, Martin (1470-1520).
Quarta Europae Tabula.
Woodcut engraving.
Strasburg, 1513 or 1520.
23 1/8" x 17 1/2" sheet.
The Map shows the historic region of Germania, particularly "Magna Germania" (Greater Germania). The map features the area between the north Rhine River, the River Danube to the south, and the Vistula to the east. A small part of the historic region of Sarmatia is also marked east of the Vistula.
Martin Waldseemuller, a highly accomplished student of geography, merged the science of map making and the art of printing in this splendid map of germania and the atlas from which it came - the most groundbreaking volume in the history or cartography. Like many other Renaissance scholars interested in classical learning, Waldseemuller translated and made maps according to Claudius Ptolemy's "Geographia" a second-century treatise. Ptolemy's plans for ordering three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface were in fact the most advanced methods up to the time of the Renaissance. In 1500 years no one had been able to improve on Ptolemy's instructions, for a time, in fact, many had regressed to thinking the worth was flat.
WALDSEEMULLER, Martin (1470-1520).
Quarta Europae Tabula.
Woodcut engraving.
Strasburg, 1513 or 1520.
23 1/8" x 17 1/2" sheet.
The Map shows the historic region of Germania, particularly "Magna Germania" (Greater Germania). The map features the area between the north Rhine River, the River Danube to the south, and the Vistula to the east. A small part of the historic region of Sarmatia is also marked east of the Vistula.
Martin Waldseemuller, a highly accomplished student of geography, merged the science of map making and the art of printing in this splendid map of germania and the atlas from which it came - the most groundbreaking volume in the history or cartography. Like many other Renaissance scholars interested in classical learning, Waldseemuller translated and made maps according to Claudius Ptolemy's "Geographia" a second-century treatise. Ptolemy's plans for ordering three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface were in fact the most advanced methods up to the time of the Renaissance. In 1500 years no one had been able to improve on Ptolemy's instructions, for a time, in fact, many had regressed to thinking the worth was flat.