Antique c1535 Lorenz Fries MAP of PAKISTAN and INDIA

Description: ORIGINAL c1535 LORENZ FRIES (1485-1532) 'TABULAE ASIAE IX' INDIA & PAKISTAN WOODCUT MAP from PTOLEMY'S GEOGRAPHIAThis is a wonderful original. I recently acquired a small collection of antique 16th Century maps. I bought the collection for 2 particular maps I wanted for my personal collection. The other ones I will be offering on ebay this week. A great opportunity to add some wonderful 16th Century maps to your collection. This is a wonderful original woodcut map by Lorenz Fries from his original atlas Ptolemy's Geographia. For those not familiar with the mapmaker, I have included his biography below. This is really a wonderful early map of what is India and Pakistan today. Complete sheet measures 16 3/8 x 21 5/8 inches. Map is in wonderful original untouched condition. Some minor spotting throughout but still displays well. Archival taped at the top edge into original matte and backing. There is not a toning box but I am not sure of whether they are acid free or not. French matte and silver frame are complimentary and ready to hang. Frame measures 21 x 25 inches. If you collect early antique maps, check my store for the others I am offering. A great chance to add to your collection. FREE SHIPPING ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES!Fort those not familiar with the artist, his biography from an important Map seller reads: "Lorenz (Laurent) Fries (ca. 1485-1532) was born in Mulhouse, Alsace. He studied medicine, apparently spending time at the universities of Pavia, Piacenza, Montpellier and Vienna. After completing his education, Fries worked as a physician in several places before settling in Strasbourg in about 1519. While in Strasbourg, Fries met the Strasbourg printer and publisher Johann Grüninger, an associate of the St. Dié group of scholars formed by, among others, Walter Lud, Matthias Ringmann and Martin Waldseemüller. From 1520 to 1525, Fries worked with Grüninger as a cartographic editor, exploiting the corpus of material that Waldseemüller had created. Fries' first venture into mapmaking was in 1520, when he executed a reduction of Martin Waldseemüller's wall map of the world, first published in 1507. While it would appear that Fries was the editor of the map, credit is actually given in the title to Peter Apian. The map, Tipus Orbis Universalis Iuxta Ptolomei Cosmographi Traditionem Et Americ Vespucii Aliorque Lustrationes A Petro Apiano Leysnico Elucubrat. An.o Dni MDXX, was issued in Caius Julius Solinus' Enarrationes, edited by Camers, and published in Vienna in 1520. Fries’ next project was a new edition of the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemy, which was published by Johann Grüninger in 1522. Fries evidently edited the maps, in most cases simply producing a reduction of the equivalent map from Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of the Geographie Opus Novissima, printed by Johann Schott. Fries also prepared three new maps for the Geographia, of Southeast Asia and the East Indies, China, and the world, but the geography of these derives from Waldseemüller's world map of 1507. The 1522 edition of Fries' work is very rare, suggesting that the work was not commercially successful. In 1525, an improved edition was issued, with a re-edit of the text by Willibald Pirkheimer, from the notes of Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller von Königsberg). After Grüninger's death in ca. 1531, the business was continued by his son Christoph, who seems to have sold the materials for the Ptolemy to two Lyon publishers, the brothers Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel, who published a joint edition in 1535, before Gaspar Trechsel published an edition in his own right in 1541."CHECK THE PICTURES ON THIS EXCELLENT PIECE!!! DONT MISS THIS CHANCE!!!Shipping and handling can be calculated based on the ebay shipping calculator. If you have any questions regarding the work, please dont hesitate to ask. Pictures are an excellent indication of condition. Though the shipping says it will take 5 days of handling, usually items are shipped much faster and if you pay right away, the item most likely will go out in the next day or two. If there is any problems with the item please dont hesitate to email me. I guarantee and stand 100% behind everything I sell. No reason to open up any sort of cases. Just simply contact me and I will handle any and all problems. Out of the nearly 500 items I ship around the world every year, a very few of them occasionally get lost or broken. I insure every item and will handle all insurance claims and make sure you are reimbursed 100%. Check my feedback. After nearly 15 years of selling on ebay, my reputation speaks for itself. If you are not happy with your purchase, I will work to make sure you are. Thanks again for your interest and bidding.

Price: 395 USD

Location: Holliston, Massachusetts

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