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APIANUS, Peter. WORLD MAP. Tipus Orbis Universalis

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Delineation of the entire world prepared according to the teaching of Ptolemy the cosmographer, and the voyages of Americus Vespuccius and others by Peter Apian of Leissing. [Vienna:] 1520. Double-page woodcut map of the world on a truncated cordiform projection (305 x 430 mm). Title set in upper margin, margins decorated with 12 windheads, two wreaths to lower corners, one lettered "L.A." for Luca Atantses, a financier of the map's production, and "L.F." for Lorenzen Fries, a draughtsman, and "J.K." for Johannes Camertius. Condition: lightly browned along central fold, lower margin trimmed close with little loss to the word "Meridies." an important world map, recognised as the first attainable to name "america." Peter Bienewitz (Apianus) was a Professor of Mathematics in Vienna, and a Geographer and mapmaker. He modelled this map on Waldseemuellers 1507 wallmap. As was the trait at this time as well as being sold separately, the map was bound into an edition of Solinus's Polyhistor published in Vienna in 1520 and is also found bound in Mela's De Situ Orbis Basel, 1522. the map shows the influence of Lorenz Fries, of Strabourg , a great folkower of Waldseemueller. Church 45; Harisse 126; Shirley 45; Sabin 86390; Nordenskiold p. 99; Van Ortroy 1.

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