Detailed map of the region north of Black Sea and west of the Caspian, from the 1535 edition of Fries Geographia. The publisher of this edition, Michael Villanovus (or Servetus), was tried by Calvin for heresy and burned at the stake with several of...
Rare Early Regional Map of Romania, Greece, etc. Nice example of the 1525 edition of Lorenz Fries map of the Balkans, Romania and northern Greece First published in Strasbourg by Johannes Gruninger in 1522, Fries map is based upon Waldseemuller's map...
Rare, Early Map of the Adriatic Based on Ptolemy’s Famous Geographia Nice example of Lorenz Fries’ map of part of the Adriatic and the Balkans from his 1535 edition of Claudius Ptolemy’s Geographia. The present map depicts part of Europe in the...
Nice example of the 1535 edition of Lorenz Fries modern map of Sicily and Sardinia. First published in Strasbourg by Johannes Gruninger in 1522, Fries map is based upon Waldseemuller's map of 1513.
![Tabula VIII Asiae [Central Asia] (Title on Verso)](/map/small/31320.jpg)
Gorgeous Ptolemaic map of Central Asia and Tartary and Western China, from Lorenz Fries' edition of Ptolemy's Geographia. This map is largely based on the 1513 map by Waldseemuller. Lorenz (Laurent) Fries was born in Alsace in about 1490. He studied...
![Tabula IX Asiae [Pakistan & India] (Title on Verso)](/map/small/49098.jpg)
Gorgeous Ptolemaic map of Pakistan and Western India, from Lorenz Fries' edition of Ptolemy's Geographia. This map is largely based on the 1513 map by Waldseemuller.
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One of Ptolemy's Greatest Errors An important early map of the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia, drawn from Ptolemy's Geography. The map illustrates one of the greatest of the Ptolemy errors, the belief that a southern continent existed, which...
Early Antique Map of Southeast Asia Finely colored example of the first printed map to focus on Southeast Asia and the only map to focus on this area in the first half of the 16th century. Fries' map was a significant milestone in the Mapping of...
![[Arabia] Tabula Sexta Asiae (Title on Verso)](/map/small/46799.jpg)
Nice example of the 1535 edition of Lorenz Fries' map of the Arabian Peninsula, Persian Gulf and adjoining regions. Important early map of the Middle East, from the 1535 edition of Lorenz Fries' Geographia, based upon the works of Claudius Ptolemy....
