Waldseemuller (after) Ptolemaeus. Nona Asiae Tabula. Strassburg: Johann Schott, 1513. Prints decorated with a bar scale

decorated with a bar scale of miles surmounted by a representation of a pair of dividers in yellow and gray wash

It played an important role in 1802 as the site of a conference between Americans and the Choctaw tribe for the construction of what became the Natchez Trace

Terrestrial Globe

$475 framed or $350 unframed)

His inquiries in New Orleans caused him to respond with regret that “there are I believe (no maps of Louisiana) extant that can be depended upon …”

Waldseemuller (after) Ptolemaeus. Nona Asiae Tabula. Strassburg: Johann Schott, 1513. Prints decorated with a bar scaleMARTIN WALDSEEMULLER Nona Asiae Tabula Strasbourg: Johann Schott, 1513 Woodcut Paper size: 17 1 2" x 23 1 4" Single sheet (17 4 8 x 23 2 8 inches). FINE woodcut map of Pakistan, northwest India, showing the Ganges, Indus rivers, by Martin Waldseemller (central vertical fold, tiny worn holes near the Indus dela). From the first modern atlas: "Geographie opus nouissima traductione e Grecorum archetypis castigatissime pressum", prepared by Martin