Author:  Laurent Fries (*1490 - †1531)

(Lorenz, Laurentius Phrisius) was a physician, astrologer and geographer, whose center of life was in Alsace.

Map title:  Tabula nova Angliae & Hiberniae /Strasbourg/ 1522

Description: One of the Earliest Obtainable Modern Maps of the British Isles. First published in Strasbourg by Johannes Gruninger in 1522, Fries map is based upon Waldseemuller's map of 1513. Fries has corrected the slanting Scotland and Cornwall, and has added many new towns, most notably along the southern and eastern coasts of England and Ireland - areas well known to European sailors and merchants. London and the Thames are named in the interior, along with the hills dividing Scotland and England. The mythical island of 'Brazil' appears off the west coast of Ireland.