First Printed Map Focusing on Southeast Asia

[Note that the dark strip at the center is a shadow in the digital image only.]

Lorenz Fries, 1522 (1541) :
Tabula nova Indiae orientalis & meridionalis. 28 x 43 cm. + title. Wide margins, strong impression.  $4200.

Fine example of this important map. Although the atlas prepared in 1522 by Lorenz Fries was for the most part copied from the 1513 atlas of Waldseemuller, this map was not part of that earlier work and is the creation of Fries himself. The sources material, nonetheless, remains the eminent Waldseemuller, probably the separately-published world map of 1507. Waldseemuller, in turn, drew largely from such fifteenth-century sources as Martellus.

This woodcut map of Malaya and the East Indian islands is a landmark for the region, being the first specifically devoted to Southeast Asia..