Die alteste karte mit dem namen Amerika aus dem jahre 1507

Description

German and English in parallel columns. Added t.-p. in English. The English translation is by Rev. George Pickel, S.J.,Two folding cloth backed maps measure 127.l x 230.7 cm. and l32.7 x 333.3 cm.,Bound in gray paper covers in a one-half black cloth over gray paper covered portfolio in a gray paper covered box measuring 64.7 x 54 cm.,P602,Condition note: Maps cockled and foxed; front cover torn at top left corner, back cover torn at top right corner, headcap torn; some pages detached; box scratched and torn.Scanned.5/04.,5 8,

Publisher

Wagner

Author

Waldseemuller, Martin, 1470-1521?

Translator

Pickel, Georges, S.J.

Editor

Fischer, Joseph, 1858-
Wieser, Franz, ritter von, 1848-

Date

1903

Collection

Posner Memorial Collection

Extent

55 p. -- illus. 5 maps (2 fold., cloth backed) -- 51.8 x 34.8 cm.

Language

German

Rights

No Copyright - United States

Original Repository

Carnegie Mellon University Special Collections

Place Published

Innsbruck;London

Persistent Link

http://doi.library.cmu.edu/10.1184/OCLC/00826961

OCLC Number

00826961

Subjects

Subject (Topic)

Maps, Early
Cartography--History
America--Name
America--Description and travel--Maps, Early

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