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Author(s):
Publisher:
[Strasbourg : Johannes Schott, 1520]
Access:
Public
Description:
Trapezoidal map of Central Asia and China. Relief shown pictorially. Includes names of places and natural features. In margin: latitudinal notes. From: Ptolemaeus auctus restitutus, emaculatus : cum tabulis veteribus ac nouis. [Strassburg] : Ioannes Scotus, Argentorati literis exce[r]pit, 1520. Martin Waldseemüller "edited an edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, Strasbourg, Johannes Schott 1513 ... not credited to Waldseemüller although he compiled a special supplement of 20 modern maps of 'tabulae novae' to accompany it."--Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers.
Place(s):
Asia, Central and Caribbean Area; Caribbean Sea
Subject(s):
Asia, Central—Maps—Early works to 1800, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)—Maps—Early works to 1800, Maps—China—Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu—1520, and Maps—Central Asia—1520
Call number:
HMC01.875
Held by:
Princeton: Historic Map Division, Special Collections, Firestone Library
Rights Statement:
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