Oceani occidentalis seu terrae tabula

Containers:

Drawer 122 : L : 4, Section 3

Creator:

Fries, Lorenz, approximately 1490-1531

Extent:

1 Sheets

Scope and content:

"Thirty years after Martin Waldseemüller printed one of the first maps of the Americas, Lorenz Fries published an updated European perspective on the New World. "Terra Incognita" on Waldseemüller's map has become "Terra Nova" on Fries's. The Castilian flag marks Spanish territorial claims in the Caribbean, while the continent's indigenous people are caricatured as primitive, reflecting common European misperceptions of native cultures." -- Mapping the "New World": Highlights from the Paul Schott Stevens Collection

Language:

Latin .

Material specific details:

Scale not determined. Relief shown pictorially. Includes tropic of cancer, equator, and tropic of capricorn lines. Includes illustrations.

Physical facet:

1 map ; hand colored

Dimensions:

38 x 29 cm, on sheet 54 x 38 cm

Other descriptive data:

Strasbourg : Lorenz Fries, 1541

Subjects:

Maps (documents)

Names:

Fries, Lorenz, approximately 1490-1531

Places:

Atlantic Ocean
North America
South America

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