04587

04587-1

Z P975 1513 / 3-SIZE

Tabvla Terre Nove

[Strasbourg]

[Joannes Schott]

[1513]

37 cm.

44.5 cm.

woodcut

Map of the Caribbean basin, southeastern North America and northeastern South America. Cartographic elements include the Western ocean, the islands of Isabella (present-day Cuba) and Spagnolla (or Hispaniola, present-day Dominican Republic and Haiti), tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, the equator, degrees of longitude and latitude, rivers in North and South America, and islands in the Caribbean.

Ptolemy, fl. 2nd cent.

Geographie opus nouissima traductione

Argentine [Strasbourg]

Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann began a revision of Ptolemy's maps in 1505 using Ptolemy's maps, but also incorporating contemporary maps. This atlas was published in Strasbourg by Johannes Schott in 1513 and completed by Jacobus Eszler and Georgius Ubelin. This edition included two maps of America. This is the first atlas map to depict the continuous coastline of North and South America.Both maps have come to be known as the "Admiral's Map" because it was thought that the information used to compile the map came from information provided by Christopher Columbus. Burden states that this map was probably derived from a map by Nicolo Caveri, ca. 1505.Imprint from colophon.

Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America, 3

Western hemisphere

1513