(Arabia). Tabula Vi. Asiae. Fries, Lorenz. Maps - Asia

Original woodcut Ptolomaic map of the Arabian Peninsula (36 x 52 cm) with later hand-colouring; Latin title, text, and additional woodcut decorations to verso. The map is presented on a trapezoidal projection with parallels and meridians (forerunners of lines of longitude and latitude) enumerated in the borders. Minor reinforcements to verso on centre fold and along edges (invisible to recto), three miniscule wormholes to upper portion, generally a very handsome copy. An important early map of the Arabian Peninsula from the 1535 edition of Lorenz Fries' Geographia, itself based upon the works of Claudius Ptolemy. Originally intended not for a Ptolemy edition but for a new Chronica Mundi being written by Martin Waldseemüller, whose death c.1520 caused the project to be shelved.