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Antique World Map 1541 — Fries, Tabula Noua Totius Orbis

Name: Antique World Map 1541 — Fries, Tabula Noua Totius Orbis
Brand: Old Map Studio
SKU: LOC2017585806
Price: 14.9 USD
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CODE: LOC2017585806

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Description

An old world map of 1541, the modern half of a Ptolemy

A Renaissance Ptolemy came in two parts: the maps the ancients had drawn, and the tabulae nouae, the new ones, which said what had been found since. This sheet is one of the new ones. Lorenz Fries drew the blocks and Gaspard Trechsel printed it at Vienne in 1541, ten years after Fries himself had died: a woodblock outlives the man who cut it. The record notes one thing nobody has explained — an indecipherable drawing off the west coast of Africa. Shirley lists the sheet as number 47.

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Original	Lorenz Fries, printed by Gaspard Trechsel, Vienne, 1541
Sheet	28 × 48 cm, a woodcut
Scan	full sheet 6472 × 4680 px; the map inside the trimmed border 5468 × 3694 px. From the library's own scan, not an upscale
Print size at 300 dpi	the map prints to 47 cm (18 in), the full sheet with margins to 54 cm (21 in)
You download	six ZIP archives: full sheet, trimmed, 3:2, 4:3, 5:4 and ISO A
Inside each one	one JPEG at 300 dpi, the restoration passport as a PDF, a READ ME

How to print

Pick the archive whose proportions match your frame, so nothing is cropped or stretched.
Ask for matte fine-art paper, printed in sRGB with auto-enhancement off.
Where to print it: print shops near you and checked prices at online labs.

Source and rights

Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, call number G3200 1541 .F8, LCCN 2017585806. The Library states the content is free to use and reuse, crediting the division. Its record is candid about this copy, and so are we: it is darkened and liquid stained along the left and right margins, it carries a stamp reading 0 676 in the lower left corner and a handwritten 246 in the upper right. The passport in every archive records what was removed. There is no TIFF master in the package. Catalogue record: Library of Congress →

Every map is a scan of a real sheet held in a named archive — library, shelfmark and year, all stated. Nothing generated, nothing redrawn.