Claudius Ptolemaeus (c.100-c.170) – Lorenz Fries (c.1490-c.1531) - photo 1

Claudius Ptolemaeus (c.100-c.170) – Lorenz Fries (c.1490-c.1531)

Lot 52
28.04.2021 11:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
£ 2 400
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 519342
Lot 52 | Claudius Ptolemaeus (c.100-c.170) – Lorenz Fries (c.1490-c.1531)
Estimate value
£ 2 500 – 3 500
Claudius Ptolemaeus (c.100-c.170) – Lorenz Fries (c.1490-c.1531)
Ta[ubla] Superioris Indiae et Tartariae Maioris. [Lyon: Michael Villanovanus (Servetus), 1535].
Fries' important new map of China and Japan, the first to focus on the Far East. Fries built upon the pioneering work of Waldseemüller to complete a new edition of Ptolemy illustrated with 27 maps depicting the ancient world and 22 of the modern world. The text was translated by the humanist Wilibald Pirckheimer, and it was first published by Johannes Grüninger in Strasbourg in 1525. It was re-edited by Michael Villanovanus (known as Servetus, 1511-1553), who published it in Lyon in 1535. This edition was successful enough for a reprint to appear in 1541.

Derived from sections of Waldseemüller's world map of 1507, the map shows China, Tartary, Japan and the rest of Southeast Asia as all being in the northern hemisphere – Marco Polo’s reports and other cartographic models had previously tended to push all these countries below the equator. The island of Japan (Zinpangri) is positioned where the Philippines should be, and follows Waldeseemüller’s cartography. Karrow 28/23; Suarez, Southeast Asia pp.118-119.

Woodblock printed map, untitled, but with text on verso within decorative woodblock printed architectural borders, decorative vignette of the Great King of Tartary seated in his tent in Pacific Ocean, smaller seated figure of the King of the Great Province of Champa (Vietnam) in lower portion of map above the province of Bocat (Cambodia) which is shown with the fabled Lake Chiang Mai (Lamia Lacq) reputed to be the source of Southeast Asia’s major rivers, 395 x 534mm (sheet).
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