Oceani Occidentalis seu Terrae Nove Tabula. [Strasbourg: Laurent Fries, 1525.] Double-page woodcut map of the Northern Atlantic, the seas colored in blue and graticules in yellow, sepia and red, names highlighted in red wash. 410 x 560 mm. Latin text on verso. Framed. A fine example of the famous "Admirals map," here from the second printing of the Fries Geographicae, the geography based on Waldseemueller's foundation map of 1513. Burden Mapping of North America 4.
Oceani Occidentalis seu Terrae Nove Tabula. [Strasbourg: Laurent Fries, 1525.] Double-page woodcut map of the Northern Atlantic, the seas colored in blue and graticules in yellow, sepia and red, names highlighted in red wash. 410 x 560 mm. Latin text on verso. Framed. A fine example of the famous "Admirals map," here from the second printing of the Fries Geographicae, the geography based on Waldseemueller's foundation map of 1513. Burden Mapping of North America 4.
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