Antique Maps by Laurent Fries (*1485 - 1532)

Laurent Fries was a French physician and mathematician born around 1485 in Mulhouse. He settled finally in Strassburg where he meat Peter Apian and the publisher Johannes Grüninger which made him interested in the Ptolemy Atlas of 1513 and 1520. Fries made new woodcut maps in reduced size. His Ptolemy Atlas was published first in 1522, reissued in 1525, 1535 and 1541. He died in 1532.
  • Laurent Fries:  [Tabula IIII. Europae / Hae sunt e cognitis totius orbis Prouincijs seu Prefecturis quas quarta...

    Johannes Grüninger, Strasbourg, 1525

    Early woodcut map of Germany by Laurent Fries after Martin Waldseemüller. Showing the central part of Europe from Denmark to the Alps and from France to Poland. The origin of this map is the first...

    [Tabula IIII. Europae / Hae sunt e cognitis totius orbis Prouincijs seu...
    1525 - Laurent Fries
    11838

    Antique woodcut map of Germany. Printed in Strasbourg by Johannes Grüninger in 1525.

    950,00 €
  • Laurent Fries:  [Tab. Mo. Primae Partis Aphricae et Tabula Secunde partis Aphricae.]

    Johannes Grüninger, Strasbourg, 1525

    Early woodcut map of North Africa by Laurent Fries after Martin Waldseemüller. Shows the the northern and western part of the continent. This woodcut map comes from the 1525 Strasbourg edition of...

    [Tab. Mo. Primae Partis Aphricae et Tabula Secunde partis Aphricae.]
    1525 - Laurent Fries
    11887

    Antique woodcut map of North Africa. Printed in Strasbourg by Johannes Grüninger in 1525.

    1 500,00 €
  • Laurent Fries:  Tabula V. Europae

    J. Grüninger, Strasbourg, 1525

    Early woodcut map of Southeast Europe with the Balkans by Laurent Fries after Ptolemy. From the early Strasbourg edition of Ptolemy's Geographia of 1525. Showing the area between Lake Constance...

    Tabula V. Europae
    1525 - Laurent Fries
    12670

    Antique woodcut map of the Balkan. Printed in Strasbourg by J. Grüninger in 1525.

    750,00 €
  • Laurent Fries:  Claudi Ptolemaei Geographicae Enarrationis Libri Octo Bilibaldo Pirckeym Hero Interprete...

    Gruninger, Strasbourg, 1525

    Very rare, old coloured woodcut title page from the second Grüninger edition of the Ptolemy Atlas by Laurent Fries. Usually the early woodcut atlases by Waldseemüller and Fries are uncoloured, very...

    Claudi Ptolemaei Geographicae Enarrationis Libri Octo Bilibaldo Pirckeym...
    1525 - Laurent Fries
    12709

    Title page from the Fries Atlas. Printed 1525 in Strasbourg.

    1 200,00 €
  • Laurent Fries:  Tabula Nona Asia Continentur, Aria

    Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel, Vienne, 1541

    An early woodcut map of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the western part of India. With a small illustration of a king and title on verso.The origin of this Ptolemaic map is the first so called...

    Tabula Nona Asia Continentur, Aria
    1541 - Laurent Fries
    11703

    Antique woodcut map of India, Afghanistan, Pakistan. Printed in Vienne by Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel in 1541.

    450,00 €
  • Laurent Fries:  [De Boemia. / Tabula quarta & quinta Europae de nonnullis / Germaniae ...]

    Gaspar Trechsel, Lyon, 1541

    Early woodcut map of Germany by Laurent Fries after Martin Waldseemüller. Showing the central part of Europe from Denmark to the Alps and from France to Poland. The origin of this map is the first...

    [De Boemia. / Tabula quarta & quinta Europae de nonnullis / Germaniae ...]
    1541 - Laurent Fries
    11837

    Antique woodcut map of Germany. Printed in Lyon by Gaspar Trechsel in 1541.

    790,00 €
  • Laurent Fries:  Tabula nova Hispaniae [Tabula noua Hispaniae]

    Gaspar Trechsel, Lyon, 1541

    Early antique woodcut map of Spain and Portugal by Laurent Fries after Martin Waldseemüller. The map shows the Iberian Peninsula and comes from the Lyon edition of Ptolemy's Geographia from 1541....

    Tabula nova Hispaniae [Tabula noua Hispaniae]
    1541 - Laurent Fries
    12405

    Antique woodcut map of Spain - Portugal. Printed in Lyon by Gaspar Trechsel in 1541.

    950,00 €
  • Laurent Fries:  Tabu. VII Asiae

    Grüninger, Strasbourg, 1525

    Trapezoidal Ptolemaic woodcut map showing the area around Caspian Sea. A reduced version of Martin Waldseemullers ptolemy map from 1513. From the 1525 Strassbourg Edition of Ptolemy's Geographia....

    Tabu. VII Asiae
    1525 - Laurent Fries
    10081

    Antique woodcut map of the Caspian Sea. Printed in Strasbourg by Grüninger in 1525.

  • Laurent Fries:  [Tabula X Europae]

    J. Grüninger, Strasbourg, 1525

    Trapezoidal woodcut map showing Greece by L. Fries. A reduced version of Martin Waldseemullers ptolemy map of 1513, from the 1525 Strassbourg Edition of Ptolemy's Geographia by Johannes Gruninger....

    [Tabula X Europae]
    1525 - Laurent Fries
    10852

    Antique woodcut map of Greece. Printed in Strasbourg by J. Grüninger in 1525.

  • Laurent Fries:  Tabula Terre Sanctae

    M. & G. Trechsel, Lyon, 1535

    Early woodcut map of the Holy Land by L. Fries. From the 1535 Lyon edition of Ptolemy's Geographia edited by M. Servetus and published by M. and G. Trechsel, printed from the 1522 woodblocks from...

    Tabula Terre Sanctae
    1535 - Laurent Fries
    10859

    Antique woodcut map of Palestine, Israel. Printed in Lyon by M. & G. Trechsel in 1535.

  • Laurent Fries:  Tabu. moder. Indiae

    M. & G. Trechsel, Lyon, 1535

    Woodcut map of India by L. Fries. From the 1535 Lyon edition of Ptolemy's Geographia edited by M. Servetus and published by M. and G. Trechsel, printed from the 1522 woodblocks of the first Fries...

    Tabu. moder. Indiae
    1535 - Laurent Fries
    10862

    Antique woodcut map of India. Printed in Lyon by M. & G. Trechsel in 1535.

  • Laurent Fries:  Tabu. Nova Orbis / Diefert Situs Orbis Hydrographorum Ab Eo Quem Ptolomeus Posuit

    M. & G. Trechsel, Lyon, 1535

    The second 'modern' world map of L. Fries. 'This map is one of the earliest world maps available to a collector, and is an unsophisticated but attractive rendering of what was generally known of...

    Tabu. Nova Orbis / Diefert Situs Orbis Hydrographorum Ab Eo Quem...
    1535 - Laurent Fries
    10865

    Antique woodcut map of the world. Printed in Lyon by M. & G. Trechsel in 1535.

  • Laurent Fries:  Tabu. Nova Helvetiae

    M. & G. Trechsel, Lyon, 1535

    Woodcut map of Switzerland by L. Fries. From the 1535 Lyon edition of Ptolemy's Geographia edited by M. Servetus and published by M. and G. Trechsel, printed from the 1522 woodblocks from the first...

    Tabu. Nova Helvetiae
    1535 - Laurent Fries
    10868

    Antique woodcut map of Switzerland. Printed in Lyon by M. & G. Trechsel in 1535.

  • Laurent Fries:  [Tab. Mo. Germa.]

    Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel, Lyon, 1535

    Early woodcut map of Germany showing central Europe from Denmark to the Alps and from France to Poland. This 'modern' Ptolemaic map origin is the first so called Modern Atlas by Martin...

    [Tab. Mo. Germa.]
    1535 - Laurent Fries
    11066

    Antique woodcut map of Germany. Printed in Lyon by Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel in 1535.

  • Laurent Fries:  Tabu. moder. Indiae

    M. & G. Trechsel, Lyon, 1535

    Early and important woodcut map of Asia by Laurent Fries after Martin Waldseemüller. This woodcut map comes from the 1535 Lyon edition of Ptolemy's Geographia . One of the earliest representations...

    Tabu. moder. Indiae
    1535 - Laurent Fries
    11895

    Antique woodcut map of the Asian continent. Printed in Lyon by M. & G. Trechsel in 1535.

  • Laurent Fries:  Europae tabula nona. Continet Iaziges Metanastas, Daciam, Mysiam superiorem

    Trechsel, Vienne, 1541

    Untitled trapezoidal Ptolemaic woodcut map of the Balkan. From the 1541 Vienne (Dauphiné) edition of Ptolemy's Geographia published by Gaspar Trechsel and sold by Hughes de la Porte in Lyons. The...

    Europae tabula nona. Continet Iaziges Metanastas, Daciam, Mysiam superiorem
    1541 - Laurent Fries
    10152

    Coloured woodcut map of Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Balkan. Printed in Vienne by Trechsel in 1541.

  • Laurent Fries:  Aphricae tabula secunda continet

    Trechsel, Vienne, 1541

    Untitled trapezoidal Ptolemaic woodcut map of North Africa. From the 1541 Vienne (Dauphiné) edition of Ptolemy's Geographia published by Gaspar Trechsel and sold by Hughes de la Porte in Lyon. The...

    Aphricae tabula secunda continet
    1541 - Laurent Fries
    10111

    Coloured woodcut map of Sardinia, Malta, North Africa. Printed in Vienne by Trechsel in 1541.

  • Laurent Fries:  Tabula noua Poloniae, Vngariae, & Russiae

    G. Treschel, Vienne, 1541

    Hand coloured woodcut map of Russia, Poland and Hungary from the Ptolemy Atlas of 1541 by L. Fries. Size reduced version of the Waldseemüller map published first 1513 in Strasbourg.

    Tabula noua Poloniae, Vngariae, & Russiae
    1541 - Laurent Fries
    10301

    Coloured woodcut map of Hungary, Russia. Printed in Vienne by G. Treschel in 1541.

  • Laurent Fries:  Tabula noua Indiae orientalis & meridionalis.

    G. Trechsel, Vienne, 1541

    Handcoloured trapezoidal woodcut map of Southeast Asia. From the 1541 Vienne edition of Ptolemy's Geographia edited by M. Servetus and published by Gaspar Trechsel. 'This is the first printed...

    Tabula noua Indiae orientalis & meridionalis.
    1541 - Laurent Fries
    10855

    Coloured woodcut map of Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia. Printed in Vienne by G. Trechsel in 1541.

  • Laurent Fries:  Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae Enarrationis, Libri Octo ... Prostant Lugduni apud...

    G. Trechsel, Vienne, 1541

    Ptolemy's Geographia with 50 Woodcut Maps by Laurent Fries.A very fine wide-margin example of Ptolemy's Geographia with 50 large woodcut maps by Waldseemüller/Fries. This is the second...

    Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae Enarrationis, Libri Octo ......
    1541 - Laurent Fries
    11191

    Geography of Ptolemy with 50 woodcut maps by Waldseemüller/Fries, published 1541 by Trechsel in Vienne.

  • Laurent Fries:  Tabula nova provinciarum Rheni / [Lotharingia]

    Gaspar Trechsel, Lyon, 1541

    One of the Earliest Maps of the Southwestern Part of Germany.Very early woodcut map of Southwest Germany by Laurent Fries after Martin Waldseemüller. Shows the Black Forest, the Alsace and...

    Tabula nova provinciarum Rheni / [Lotharingia]
    1541 - Laurent Fries
    11839

    Antique woodcut map of the Lorraine, Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg. Printed in Lyon by Gaspar Trechsel in 1541.

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