Africa.- Fries (Lorenz) [Tabula I Aphricae], trapezoidal Ptolemaic map covering Morocco, Mauritania, the Western Sahara, Algeria and the western edge of Libya, with the Pillars of Hercules depicted on either side of the Straits of Gibraltar, and the Atlas Mountains covering large parts of the land, woodcut on laid paper with small watermark of a cross, sheet 357 x 547 mm. (14 1/8 x 21 1/2 in), Latin text verso with woodcut borders and decoration, central vertical fold, contemporary ink marginalia upper left, repair to loss in lower centre of margin, other small repairs with some minor pen facsimile, unframed, [Strasbourg, 1535].
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