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Title

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

Other Title

  • Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorū que lustrationes

Names

  • Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519.

Created / Published

  • [Strasbourg, France? : s.n., 1507]

Headings

  • -  Earth

Genre

  • World maps
  • Early maps

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.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
  • -  Includes text and ill.
  • -  Printed surrogate in vault available for reference.
  • -  LC digital image is a composite map from the twelve separate sheets.
  • -  Originally bound with Waldseemüller's 1516 Carta marina in the Schöner Sammelband.

Medium

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

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3200 1507 .W3

Repository

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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2003626426

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Waldseemüller, Martin. Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque lustrationes. [Strasbourg, France?: s.n, 1507] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2003626426/.

APA citation style:

Waldseemüller, M. (1507) Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque lustrationes. [Strasbourg, France?: s.n] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2003626426/.

MLA citation style:

Waldseemüller, Martin. Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque lustrationes. [Strasbourg, France?: s.n, 1507] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2003626426/>.