Waldseemuller, Martin (c. 1470-1520). Tabula Moderna Italie. Strassbourg, 1513 Weekly Offering 7012020 1849-61 (supplement printed 1880-87)

1849-61 (supplement printed 1880-87)

or the existence of a southern continent

Rightly considered one of the foremost maps in American history

Tanner did not take the time to avail himself of the most recent geographical advances

and their use in his maps make them the most reliable contemporary record of agricultural and mineral wealth in the state

Waldseemuller, Martin (c. 1470-1520). Tabula Moderna Italie. Strassbourg, 1513 Weekly Offering 7012020 1849-61 (supplement printed 1880-87)Martin Waldseemuller (c. 1470 1520) Tabula Moderna Italie Woodcut map Strassbourg: 1513 17 1 2 x 23 1 4 sheet Ptolemys First Modern Map of Italy One of the earliest maps of Italy based on modern top onymy rather than classical place names. The present map of Italy is part of the Supplementum Modernior which Nordenskiold calls the first modern atlas of the world. Waldseemller in the introduction to his Pars Secunda: We have confined the Geographia of