Uslegung der Mercarthen oder Cartha marina
Subtitle: darin man sehen mag, wo einer in der wellt sey, vnd wo ein yetlich Landt, Wasser, vnd Stadt gelegen ist. Das alles in dem Büchlin zůfinden
Contributors: Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512
Publisher: von Johannes Grieninger
Published: 1527
Place of publication: Getruckt zu Strassburg
Language: ger
Subjects: Geography; Early works to 1800
Notes: First published: Strasbourg, 1525.

Designated to accompany: Carta marina, the author's version of the Waldseemüller marine chart.

Dedication signed (leaf I verso): Laure[n]tius Friess.

Publication statement from colophon.

Some copies of the Uslegung may have been issued with a folded map, which appeared in the Strasbourg, 1525 edition. Cf. Carta Marina / H.B. Johnson, p. 107.

Signatures: A-C⁶ D⁸ (D8 verso blank)

One of the illustrations is double-page.

Numerous errors in foliation.

Includes index.

"Von America ein Teil dauon hie veschriben" (leaf VI verso) taken from Amerigo Vespucci's first voyage.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, 1:97.

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 527/3.