Martin Waldseemuller Hand Numbered Limited Edition Print on Paper :"Universalis Cosmographia Secundum Ptholomei Traditionem... [1507]"

Artist: Martin Waldseemuller
Title: Universalis Cosmographia Secundum Ptholomei Traditionem... [1507]
Dimensions (W x H ): Paper Size: 40 x 22 in | Image Size: 40 x 22 in
Edition | Medium: Each print is hand numbered, accompanied by a certificate signed by the Master Printer and is numbered to match the print. The editions are limited to 1880 copies. |

This Gouttelette print on paper is published with light-fast inks to BS1006 Standard onto acid-free calcium carbonate buffered stock, mould-made from 100% cotton and sourced from environmentally conscious paper suppliers. This product is exclusive to Rosenstiels.

About the Art: Superior Edition
About the Artist:

Martin Waldseemüller was born in approximately 1473, probably in the village of Wolfenweiler, near to Freiburg im Breisgau. He grew up in Freiburg and attended the university there in 1590, where his tutor, Gregor Reisch, was the Confessor to the Emperor Maximilian. Reisch was noted for his philosophical work Margarita Philosophica, which included a world map based on Ptolemy’s work.

After leaving university, Waldseemüller learned the printing trade in Basle before moving to become Professor of Cosmography under the patronage of the Duke of Lorraine, by now living in St Didal. The Duke, Rene II, was fascinated by an account of the recent voyages of Amerigo Vespucci and Waldseemüller, with a friend from university called Matthias Ringman, who wrote the texts, produced a book called Cosmographiae Introductio, with a world map designed to show the new continent of America and those parts of the world unknown to Ptolemy. One thousand copies of the book were published in 1507 and it is on the basis of these maps that Waldseemüller and Ringman are considered to have been responsible for the naming of the new-found continent of ‘America’.

After Ringman’s death, Waldseemüller worked on a new version of Ptolemy’s Geographia, which became the most authoritative and significant work of its time.

Waldseemüller died in 1519.