Tabu(la) Mo(derna) Ter(re) Sanctae. Double-page woodcut map by Waldseemuller.
AUCTION 69 |
Thursday, June 23rd,
2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects
Lot 271
(PTOLEMY)
Tabu(la) Mo(derna) Ter(re) Sanctae. Double-page woodcut map by Waldseemuller.
c. 1522:
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
PRICE REALIZED $2,250
From: Claudius Ptolemaeus, Geographia, with maps prepared by cartographer Martin Waldseemuller.
Oriented to the east, Waldseemuller’s modern map of Palestine after the versions by Vesconte and Sanuto (c. 1320) includes the twelve tribal divisions.