| Cartograph: | Laurent Fries (*1485 - †1532) | | Title: | Europae tabula nona. Continet Iaziges Metanastas, Daciam, Mysiam superiorem | | Publisher/ Year: | Vienne, Trechsel, 1541 | | Plate Size: | 30.1 x 46.3 cm (11.9 x 18.2 inches) | | Reference: | Map Forum, Issue 8 | | Untitled trapezoidal Ptolemaic woodcut map of the Balkan. From the 1541 Vienne (Dauphiné) edition of Ptolemy's Geographia published by Gaspar Trechsel and sold by Hughes de la Porte in Lyons. The maps are cut by Laurence Fries, first published in the 1522 Strasbourg edition. Showing south east Europe from Adriatic Sea to Black Sea. This includes today Albania, Macedonia, North of Greece and the Bosporus / Turkey around Istanbul. | | Good strong impression in beautiful original colour. Some browning, repairs on centrefold. Overall very good condition. | | |
