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File:Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru(m)que lustrationes. LOC 2003626426.tif

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English: Relief shown pictorially. First document known to name America. Red ink grid on 2 sheets. Text applied over blank areas on 2 sheets. Manuscript annotations in the margin of 1 sheet. All sheets bear a watermark of a triple pointed crown. Two stamps on verso of upper left hand sheet: Fürstl. Waldburg Wolfegg'sches Kupferstichkabinett -- Furstl. Waldbg. Wolf. Bibliothek. Exhibited: Rivers, edens, empires: Lewis & Clark and the revealing of America, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., July 24-Nov. 29, 2003. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text and ill. Printed surrogate in vault available for reference. LC digital image is a composite map from the twelve separate sheets. Originally bound with Waldseemüller's 1516 Carta marina in the Schöner Sammelband.
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Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii alioru[m]que lustrationes.
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G3200 1507 .W3
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Source https://www.loc.gov/item/2003626426/
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Martin Waldseemüller  (1470–1520)  wikidata:Q57197 q:cs:Martin Waldseemüller
 
Martin Waldseemüller
Alternative names
Martin Hylacomylus
Description cartographer, cosmographer, theologian and geographer
Date of birth/death circa 1470
date QS:P,+1470-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
 16 March 1520 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Wolfenweiler bei Freiburg im Breisgau Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
Work period 1500 Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q57197
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