WALDSEEMÜLLER, Martin - AVEZAC, Armand d'.

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Martin Hylacomylus Waltzemüller ses ouvrages et ses collaborateurs... par un géographe bibliophile. First separate edition, inscribed by the author on the front wrapper "Monsieur Natalis de Wailly, L'institut, Offert par l'Auteur". The recipient, Natalis de Wailly, was lead administrator of the Royal Archives, and is credited with formulating the fundamental archival principle of respect des fonds.A presentation copy of this thorough study of Martin Waldseemüller by the accomplished French "geographer and bibliophile", Armand d'Avezac. This is the first separately published edition, extracted and edited from a prior appearance in the comprehensive Nouvelles Annales des Voyages.Waldseemüller, a master German mapmaker of the early-16th century, has been immortalized in the field of Americana thanks to his 1507 wall map: the first document to name the New World "America", and which survives in only a single copy. His various other maps and globe gores featuring and focusing on the newly discovered continent are almost universally rare and important, and there is no question that he is one of the towering figures of post-Columbian cartography. The author goes through the early editions of Waldseemüller's printed works and those containing his maps, describing their contents, physical makeup, and closely examining their similarities and differences. Titles examined include Waldseemüller's Cosmographiae Introductio, Apianus' work of the same title, the letters of Vespucci, Reisch's

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