Jun 13, 2024 - Sale 2672

Sale 2672 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 9,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
(ATLANTIC -- NEW WORLD.) Laurent Fries; after Martin Waldseemuller. Oceani Ocidentalis seu Terre Nove Tabula. Double-page woodcut map of the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, and southeast North America. 14¼x21 inches sheet size, wide margins, Latin text within woodcut borders on verso; small expert repair at lower center fold but overall a pleasing example. Lyon, 1535
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One of the earliest obtainable maps of the New World, here we find a slightly reduced version of the 1513 "Admiral's Map", ornamented with a scene of cannibalistic people and a large American opossum in the southern landmass. Also with this edition, a ruled announcement citing Columbus's discoveries in 1492 appears below the island of Hispaniola. Burden 4.