Laurent Fries

Tabula X Asiae [India and Central Asia]

Strasbourg: Johan Schott, c.1513. Notes: A scarce first state map of India and Central Asia, based upon previous work by Ptolemy and Waldseemuller, from the early 16th century. Latin text on verso.
Lorenz (Laurent) Fries (c.1490 - c.1531) was a physician, astrologer and geographer born in Alsace. After studying medicine and spending time at several European universities, he settled in Strasbourg where he met publisher and printer Johann Grüninger. With Grüninger, he worked on a new edition of Ptolemy's "Geographia" with woodcut maps reduced from Martin Waldseemuller's "Geographie Opus Novissima", which were published in various editions from 1522 - 1541, even after Fries died. , Size : 298x485 (mm), 11.73x19.09 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Asia Central Afghanistan, Pakistan; Maps Asia Central India & Sri Lanka / Ceylon;. Very Good. Item #M9658

Notes: A scarce first state map of India and Central Asia, based upon previous work by Ptolemy and Waldseemuller, from the early 16th century. Latin text on verso.
Lorenz (Laurent) Fries (c.1490 - c.1531) was a physician, astrologer and geographer born in Alsace. After studying medicine and spending time at several European universities, he settled in Strasbourg where he met published and printer Johann Grüninger. With Grüninger, he worked on a new edition of Ptolemy's "Geographia" with woodcut maps reduced from Martin Waldseemuller's "Geographie Opus Novissima", which were published in various editions from 1522 - 1541, even after Fries died. , Size : 298x485 (mm), 11.73x19.09 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Category: Maps Asia Central India; Maps Asia Central Afghanistan, Pakistan;.

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