WALDSEEMÜLLER, MARTIN: THE 5TH MAP OF EUROPE
Inventory number 105
Author: WALDSEEMÜLLER, MARTIN
Original title: Tabula V Europae
Publishing year: 1535
Place of publishing and publisher: Lyon
Format: 30 x 46 cm
Technique: Colored woodcut
Waldseemüller's edition of Ptolemy's 5th map of Europe was published in Lyon in 1535 at Melchior and Gaspar Treschel's. It shows the Roman provinces Raethia, Vindelicia, Noric, Lower and Upper Pannonia, Illyricum and Dalmatia. Ref. catalogue No. 120.
WALDSEEMÜLLER, MARTIN
MARTIN WALDSEEMÜLLER (1470-1521) - a cartographer from Alsace. He had his schooling in Freiburg and exercised cartographic activities in St. Dieu within a frame of French cartographic traditions. On his world map of 1507 he was the first in using the word America. He issued several editions of Ptolemy's Geographia, which he published in Strassburg (1513, 1520). Some of his Ptolemy's editions appeared after his death (1525, 1535 in Lyion and in 1541 in Vienne).
