Listing map ID: 24 Apianus Petrus
Typus Orbis Universalis Juxta Ptolomei Cosmographi Traditionemet Americi Vespucii Aliorque Lustrationes A Petro Apiano Leysnico Elucbrata An. Do. MDXX.
Imprint: Viennae Austriae, Per Joannem Singrenium, 1520
Publication details:
The map was originally in binder's volume of two old prints, namely:
Joannis Camertis Minoritani, Artium, et Sacrae Theologiae Doctoris, In C. Julii Solini Polyhistōra Enarrationes (Viennae Austriae : Per Joannem Singrenium,1520) and Pomponii Melae Hispani, Libri de situ orbis tres (Viennae Pannoniae : Expensis Lucae Alantse Civis Et Bibliopolae Viennensis, per Joannem Singrenium,1518).
Area: whole world
Asia is red, Africa is yellow, both Americas is green. Background is dark blue. No stamps, No library marks. Left and right edges of the map protruded from the book, protruding edges were folded.
Image size: ca. 300×420 mm
Paper size: mm
Coloration pattern: full colored
Manuscript or printed: woodcut
Verso blank or printed: blank
Language: Latin
Reference source: Shirley, Mapping of the World, entry 45
Originally acquired and first missing: acquired 178*, missing 5 March 2009
Reported by Rostislav Krusinsky
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