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A good strong impression of Lorenz Fries (c.1490-c.1532) Ptolomaic view of South East Asia. Woodcut lettering in banderole : Tabvla XI Asiae.
Fries notes "Lest we seem to claim the merits of others, we declare that these maps were originally constructed by Martin Waldseemuller piously deceased, and that they have been drawn in a format smaller than that which they ever had before" (Skelton).
This map of South East Asia is from the 1522 first edition of Lorenz Fries Opus Geographiae published in Strasbourg by J. Grüninger, Among the text on the reverse is a gruesome image of dog-men chopping up humans and hanging the parts on a horizontal pole. This may have been engraved by Albrecht Durer (1471 - 1528).
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Robert W. Karrow, Jr. Mapmakers of the sixteenth century and their maps. #28/26
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