[attributed to Laurent Fries]. New map (as of 1522) of the World. Relief shown by hashures and pictorially. Striking example of Laurent Fries edition of Martin Waldseemuller's "Admiral's Map" of the World, from the 1541 edition of Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae ...., first published in Strassburg in 1522, one of the earliest obtainable maps of the world available to private collectors. In Fries edition of the map, he adds 5 depictions of kings, representing the kings of Russia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Taprobana and Mursuli. There is also an elephant just off the coast of Greenland.