Waldseemüller, Martin. 1470-1521?-Continued. Hodder, Frank Heywood. Early maps of America. [In Dial (The) Dec. 1, 1904. 4°. Chicago, 1904. v.37, pp.363-366] A review of "The oldest map with the name America of the year 1507, and the Carta Map of the world, by Waldseemüller. Made in 1507, the first in which the name [In International bureau of the american republics. Monthly bulletin. March [In Allgemeine deutsche biographie. 8°. Leipzig, 1881. v. 13, pp. 488–489] Oberhummer, Eugen. Die karten Martin Waldseemüllers. [In Geographische zeitschrift. Herausgegeben von dr. Alfred Hettner. 8°. Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1905. XI. jahrg., 4 heft. pp. 227-233. 1 map] The oldest map with the name America, of the year 1507, and the Carta marina of [In Athenæum (The) March 26, 1904. 4°. London, 1904. Peitz, W. M. Die weltkarten Waldseemüllers. no. 3987. pp. [Stimmen aus Maria-Laach. Mai, 1904. 8°. Freiburg im Briesgau, 1904. v.66, Pp. 540-546] Ravenstein, Ernest George. Die Waldseemüllerschen karten. [In Geographische zeitschrift. 8°. Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1906. 12 jahrgang, 3. heft, p. 165] Ravenstein, Ernest George. Waltzemüller's globe of 1507. [In Geographical journal. October, 1902. v. 20, p. 462] "Identical with his map of 1507; remarks on the Behaim and Laon globes." Stevenson, Edward Luther. Martin Waldseemüller and the early lusitanogermanic cartography of the New World. [In American geographical society. Bulletin. April, 1904. 8°. New York, 1904. v. 36, pp. 193-215] Thacher, John Boyd. The continent of America: its discovery and its baptism. An essay on the nomenclature of the old continents; a critical and bibliographical inquiry into the naming of America and into the growth of the cosmography of the New world; together with an attempt to establish the land-fall of Columbus on Watling Island, and the subsequent discoveries and explorations on the main land by Americus Vespucius. xvii, 270 p., 1 l. incl. maps, facsim., diagr. front., pl., port., maps (partly fold.) plan, facsim. fol. New York, W. E. Benjamin, 1896. No. 252 of a limited ed. of 250 copies, and 31 copies on laid paper for presentation purposes: each copy signed by the publisher. Includes: Extract from Las Casas abridgment of the journal of Columbus, with translation.-A translation of the royal decrees, april 10, 1495 and june 2, 1497.-Texts of the published narration of the first voyage of Vespucius: Italian (Florence, 1505) Latin (from the " 'Cosmographiae introductio," St. Dié, 1507) and English (published by Quaritch, 1893)—A review of the four alleged editions of the "Cosmographiae introductio" printed at St. Dié in 1507, with extracts, and facsimiles of several pages of the "unique" edition from the Thacher and Eyriès copies.-Scientific geography.-The cartography of the New World: the contour of the continent as it was developed on the early maps. Facsimile reproductions (exact size of originals) of a series of fourteen maps from 1478 to 1570. Waldseemüller, Martin. Die älteste karte mit dem namen Amerika aus dem jahre 1507 und die Carta marina aus dem jahre 1516 des M. Waldseemüller (Ilacomilus) Hrsg. mit unterstützung der Kaiserlichen akademie der wissenschaften in Wien, von prof. Jos. Fischer, S. J., und prof. Fr. r. v. Wieser. 55 p. illus. (incl. maps) 26 (i. e. 27) fold. maps. Innsbruck, Wagner; London, H. Stevens, son, & Stiles, 1903. 4 p. l. German and english in parallel columns. Added t.-p. in english. The english translation is by rev. George Pickel. Facsimiles of the original maps preserved in the library of the castle of Wolfegg in Württemberg: "25 sheets (30 in. by 21 in.), with the addition of 2 new reduced key maps . . . Each of the maps of 1507 and 1516 consists of 12 sheets, every sheet complete in itself with border, but so arranged that, when the borders are cut away, the 12 sheets can be joined up and mounted as one large map (about 8 ft. by 4 ft. 6 in.)" v. 51. Issue in another form; the maps joined and mounted. In portfolio, 65cm. Extensively reviewed by Hermann Wagner, in Göttingische gelehrte. Anzeigen, v. 1, 1904, no. 5, pp. 477-490; also by K. Kretschmer in Petermanns mitteilungen aus Justus Perthes' geographischer anstalt. 4°. Gotha, J. Perthes, 1905. Literaturbericht no. 299, pp. 94-95. Waldseemüller, Martin. Cosmographiae introductio] || cvm quibusdam || geometriae || ac || astrono || miae principiis || ad eam rem necessariis || Insuper quatuor Americi Ve- spucij nauigationes. || Vniuersalis Cbosmographix [!] descriptio || tam in solido plano/eis etiam || insertis que Ptholomeo || ignota ȧ nuperis || reperta sunt. || Distichon || Cum deus astra regat & terræ climata Cæsar || Nec tellus nec eis sydera maius habent. Colophon (encircling printer's mark): Vrbs Deodate tuo clarescens nomine præsul || qua Vogesi montis sunt iuga pressit opus || Pressit & ipsa eade Christo monimēta fauête || Tempore venturo cætera multa premet. [103] p. fold. diagr. || Finitū. vij kľ' Maij || Anno supra sesqui || millesimum. vij. Waldseemüller, Martin. Die Cosmographiae introductio des Martin Waldseemüller (Ilacomilus) in faksimiledruck, hrsg. mit einer einleitung von Fr. r. v. Wieser. 29 p., 1 l., 103 p. fold. diagr. Strassburg, J. H. E. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel) 1907. (Added t.-p.: Drucke und holzschnitte des xv. und xvi. jahrhunderts in getreuer nachbildung. XII) A reproduction of what the present editor considers to be the editio princeps, published at St. Dié in may, 1507, and containing in the dedication the latinized form of the author's name (Martinus Ilacomilus) The copy of the original, here reproduced, is preserved in the stadtbibliothek at Schlettstadt, Germany. Waldseemüller, Martin. The Cosmographix introductio of Martin Waldseemüller in facsimile, followed by the four voyages of Amerigo Vespucci, with their translation into English; to which are added Waldseemüller's two world maps of 1507, with an introduction by prof. Joseph Fischer, S. J., and prof. Franz von Wieser; ed. by prof. Charles George Herbermann, ph. d. vii. 30, ciii, 31-151 p. front., 2 fold. maps, diagrs. 80. New York, The United States Catholic historical society, 1907. (United States Catholic historical society. Monograph IV) A reproduction of the so-called editio princeps, pub. at St. Dié, april 25, 1507, and containing in the dedication the grecized form of the author's name (Martinus Ilacomilus) The translation of the Cosmographiæ introductio is by Edward Burke; that of the Four voyages by Mario E. Cosenza. 1522 Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470–1521? LC 18 NOTE. In the description of the Library of Congress copy of Ptolemy's Geographia 1522, Phillips' List of Geographical Atlases, title 361, note, p. 119, it is stated "Nordenskiöld considers that the statement on verso fol. 100 indicates that Waldseemüller was not the author of the new maps but that he copied the maps of the 1513 ed. on a reduced scale for this edition. Both the old and new maps were reprinted in the editions of 1525, 1535 and 1541 with differences only in borders and titles . . The Tabula Terre Nova, is practically the same as that in the 1513 edition, with slight changes and the addition of inscriptions, a woodcut representing natives, etc., added to South America. The reverse contains an account of the voyages and discoveries of Columbus." Schöner, Johannes. 1523 The Schöner Globe. Original in A reproduction of the Schöner Globe of 1523 with a bibliography of Schöner's works, &c., with new translation and notes on the Globe by Henry Stevens; see "Johann Schöner" by C. H. Coote, Stevens, London, 1888. The only known copy of Schöner's Globe of 1523 came to light in 1885 and passed into the possession of the late Mr. Stevens in whose opinion "Florida is here named for the first time in print." LC 19. NOTE. The full title of the above work is as follows: Johann Schöner professor of mathematics at Nuremberg. A reproduction of his globe of 1523 long lost, his dedicatory letter to Reymer von Streytperck and the "De Molvccis" of Maximilianus Transylvanus with new translations and notes on the globe by Henry Stevens of Vermont Edited with an introduction and bibliography by C. H. Coote . . . xlv, [1] pp., 24 l., 95–206 pp., 1 l. 3 maps in pocket, 1 port. 12°. London, H. Stevens, 1888. ... "This is a well got up little volume on a subject of much interest to the student of early geography. The globe to which it mainly refers was purchased by Mr. Henry Stevens and was subsequently sold to another collector, Mr. H. Kalbfleisch, of New York. It is one of the earliest known productions of its kind, having been preceded only by the well-known one by Martin Behaim, of Nuremberg, of 1492, and the anonymous Laon globe of 1493 in pre-Columbian times, and by the Hunt-Lenox globe now preserved in the Lenox Library of New York, and by the two earlier globes of Schöner, dated respectively 1515 and 1533, in post-Columbian times. The importance of Schöner's third (1523) globe lies in the fact that it was the first on which an attempt was made to lay down the track of Magellan's vessel, the Victoria. The author, Johann Schöner, was born at Carlstadt, in Franconia, in 1477, and devoted himself to geographical science. It was doubtless through his devotion to his favorite studies that he was deprived of his prebend at Bamberg. We are told that the fame of his talents spread so far that in 1526, upon the advice of Melanchthon, he was nominated to the chair of mathematics in the new Gymnasium at Nuremberg. The late Mr. Stevens has done service in collecting the material for this volume, and his friend, Mr. Coote, has worthily carried out his task, adding a bibliography of Schöner's works and a good index [E. D. M.]" Consult review in: Royal geographical society. Journal. May, 1888, p. 319. "A globe of Schöner in 1523, mentioned in: De nuper sub Castiliæ ac Portugaliæ Regibus Serenissimis repertis Insulis ac Regionibus, Ioannis Schöner Charolipolitani epistola et Globus Geographicus, seriem navigationum annotantibus. Clarissimo atque disertissimo viro Domino Reymero de Streytpergk, ecclesiæ Babenbergensis Canonico dicatæ. (Colophon:) Timiripe Anno Incarnationis dominica Millesimo quingentesimo vigesimotertio. This brochure is now very rare, but it is reprinted in the above mentioned work of Wieser, and was published as a separate pamphlet by F. AD. DE VARNHAGEN at St. Petersburg in 1872. A facsimile of the original, with an English translation, is inserted in the newly published elaborate monograph: Johann Schöner Professor of Mathematics at Nuremberg. A reproduction of his globe of 1523 long lost, etc., by HENRY STEVENS of Vermont, edited with an introduction and bibliography by C. H. COOTE, London, 1888. Schöner's brochure, the main part of which consists of an eulogy of the discoveries of Vasco da Gama, Columbus, amd Magellan, often with incorrectly written names and erroneous data, is of importance to the history of cartography, because it forms a dedicatory letter to a globe presented by Schöner to the bishop of Bamberg, and expressly constructed to illustrate the important letter of MAXIMILIAN TRANSYLVANUS, De Moluccis insulis ad reverendissimum Cardinalem Salzburgensem. A fac-simile and an English translation are given in the above-mentioned work of Henry Stevens and Coote. Some information as to the source of Schöner's knowledge of modern geography is obtained, by the following words at the end of his letter: Globum hunc in orbis modum effingere studui, exemplar haud fallibile aemulatus, quod Hispaniarum solertia cuidam viro honore conspicuo transmisit (Wieser, p. 118) Schöner's globe of 1523 has been, but so far as I can see without sufficient reason, identified by Henry Stevens with the mappemonde in gores which was offered for sale in the catalogue XLII no. 136 of Rosenthal, and which I have reproduced on pl. XL. It is obvious that the first circumnavigation of the earth was the immediate cause as well of the last mentioned globe-print, as of Schöner's letter and globe of 1523. But several circumstances militate against the identification of the mappemonde in gores sold by Rosenthal, with the globe made for the bishop of Bamberg. Among the European towns engraved on the former we find the names of Nuremberg, Venice, and Constantinople, but not of Bamberg, which would have been little complimentary to the Bishop and contrary to the custom of the period, if the work had been intended for him. The outlines of the New World given on it differ completely from the geographical ideas of Schöner, and are copied from maps of Battista Agnese of the fourth decennary of the 16th century. From this and on other grounds mentioned below, I conclude that this globe has nothing to do with Schöner's globe of 1523." Consult Nordenskiöld, Facsimile-atlas, p. 80. "Schöner's large globe of 1520 was drawn by hand; his globe of 1523 appears to have been printed in gores.' Consult Nordenskiöld, Facsimile-atlas, p. 100. Consult also: Wieser, Franz, ritter von. Der verschollene globus des Johannes Schöner von 1523, wieder aufgefunden und kritisch gewürdigt von dr. Franz r. v. Wieser. 18 pp., 1 facs. 8°. Wien, 1888. 1523 ? Turin Atlas. Unsigned, undated. Anonymous. Ms. in colors on parchment. Original in the Royal Library Turin. Harrisse (in Discovery of North America no. 148) assigns it the date of 1523. It is no. 406 of the "Elenco degli Atlanti. Planisferi e Carte nautiche de G. Uzielli et P. Amat di S. Filippo. Facsimile in Turin Atlas-Continued. Frontières entre le Brésil et la Guyane Française. Atlas. Paris. 1899. No. 2. Shows Florida as a detached island but in approximately correct shape and position and with name “Isla Florida.” Shows Gulf of Mexico. LC 20 NOTE. The full title of the "Facsimile, in Frontières entre le Brésil et la Guyane The most detailed description is given in Harrisse's Discovery of North America, An extensive notice, historical and geographical, with reproduction of the A description of these various maps in the Turin library is found in: [In Vereins für erdkunde zu Dresden. vi und vii jahresbericht. 8°. Dresden, G. Reviewed in Petermanns mitteilungen. April, 1872. v. 18, p. 160. 1524 Cortés, Hernando, 1485-1547 Cortés's map. 48 x 50.5 cms. Without name, title or date. In Praeclara Ferdinādi. Cortesii de Noua maris Oceani Hyspania Narratio Sacratissimo . Doctore Petru saguorganu Foro Iuliensē Reueñ. D. Ioan. de Reuelles Episco. Anno Dni 1524. KL. Martii (Nuremberg) This same work was printed in Venice this same year. There is a facsimile of the part showing the Gulf of Mexico in Narr. and Crit. Hist. Am., Vol. ii., p. 404. It shows the west coast of the Florida Peninsula. WL 21 NOTE. This map of the gulf of Mexico which was evidently intended as an inset to the plan of the city of Mexico is lacking in Library of Congress copy of the above mentioned work. Besides the copy in this collection the Library of Congress has an excellent 8°. Chiswick, C. Wittingham, 1854. opps. p. 86. 100 copies printed. This |