The Italian peninsula

By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; WALDESEEMULLER, Martin, 1513

Tabula Moderna et Nova Italie ac Sicilie

Europe Italy

Author: PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; WALDESEEMULLER, Martin
Publication place: Strassburg:
Publisher: Johannes Schott, 12th March
Publication date: 1513
Physical description: Woodcut map
Inventory reference: 5342

Notes

A map showing the Italian peninsula and the islands of Corsica, Sicily and Sardinia. The angle of the peninsula to the mainland has been corrected from the Ptolemaic version of the map in the same atlas. This is one of the 20 supplementary maps added by Waldseemüller.

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