![PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius -- FRIES, Lorenz (1508-1555). [Untitled World Map]. [Lyon: Melchior and Gaspar Treschel, 1535]. Double-page woodcut map (some filled-in worm holes or worm traces slightly affecting fold and figures of the winds), 368 x 476mm.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_04826_0155_001(ptolemaeus_claudius_--_fries_lorenz_untitled_world_map_lyon_melchior_a_d5548875022601).jpg?w=1)
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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius -- FRIES, Lorenz (1508-1555). [Untitled World Map]. [Lyon: Melchior and Gaspar Treschel, 1535]. Double-page woodcut map (some filled-in worm holes or worm traces slightly affecting fold and figures of the winds), 368 x 476mm.
The first of two modern world maps in Fries's Ptolemaic atlas, this was a reduction in size of Waldseemüller's Ptolemaic world map of 1513. The Lyon edition of Fries's atlas -- which follwed two Strassburg editions of 1522 and 1525 -- is rare since Calvin ordered it to be burned on grounds of heresy. Shirley 47.
The first of two modern world maps in Fries's Ptolemaic atlas, this was a reduction in size of Waldseemüller's Ptolemaic world map of 1513. The Lyon edition of Fries's atlas -- which follwed two Strassburg editions of 1522 and 1525 -- is rare since Calvin ordered it to be burned on grounds of heresy. Shirley 47.