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graphiae introductio', a globe, and two world maps of 1507 and 

 1516^ — a related body of old and new geography, anticipating 

 the scheme of Gerhard Mercator, The atlas contains forty- 

 seven woodcut maps, of which eleven may be considered as 

 new. These include a world chart which is a crude version 

 of his elaborate 'Carta marina' of 1516, based in turn on 

 Canerio's chart; a 'Tabula terre nove', one of the earliest 

 separate maps of the American continent ; a map of Switzerland 

 based on a manuscript map of Konrad Diirst of 1496; and a 

 'Tabula moderna Lotharingiae'. The latter is of interest as an 

 early example of printing in colour, and for its attempt at 

 depicting the landforms of the region.^ 



This edition was reprinted from the same blocks in 1520, 

 and two years later Laurent Fries put out another, with some- 

 what different maps on smaller scales, but also attributed 

 to Waldseemiiller. Though many new maps were pouring from 

 the presses, the interest in Ptolemy did not die out completely 

 in the sixteenth century: of those editions which preceded 

 Mercator's, perhaps the most important were those by 

 Sebastian Miinster (Basel, 1540) and by Jacopo Gastaldi 

 (Venice, 1548), the latter, a small octavo, containing sixty 

 engraved maps, generally based on Miinster's, but with 

 considerable additions. Not long after, these composite col- 

 lections of old and new geography were to be superseded by 

 the modern atlases of Ortelius and Mercator. 



^For these maps, see p. 99 below. 



^Taylor, E. G. R., A regional map of the early sixteenteenth century. 

 {Geogr. Journ., 71, 1928, 474.) 



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AlmagiA, R., Monumenta Italiae Cartographica, Firenze, 1929. 



Fischer, J. and von Wieser, F., The oldest map with the name America, etc. 



Innsbruck, 1903. 

 Gallois, L., Les geographes allemands de la Renaissance. Paris, 1890. 

 Lynam, E., The first engraved atlas of the world; the Cosmographia of 



Claudius Ptolemaeus, Bologna, 1477. Jenkintown, 1941. 

 Stevens, H. N., Ptolemy's 'Geography': a brief account of all the printed 



editions to 1730. 2nd ed., 1908. 



