not an original copy - it was printed in the 20th century. A third copy was discovered in 1992 bound into an edition of Aristotle in the Stadtbücherei Offenburg, a public library in Germany. A fourth copy came to light in 2003 when its European owner read a newspaper article about the Waldseemüller map. It was sold at auction to Charles Frodsham & Co. for $1,002,267, a world record price for a single sheet map. In July 2012, a statement was released from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich that a fifth copy of the gore had been found in the LMU Library's collection which is somewhat different from the other copies, perhaps because of a later date of printing. LMU Library has made an electronic version of their copy of the map available online. See also Ancient world maps Caverio map, made in 1505. History of cartography Johannes Schöner globe, made in 1520. List of most expensive books and manuscripts Mappa mundi Naming of the Americas Piri Reis map Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, considered to be the first true modern atlas. World map References Further reading Lester, Toby: "A world redrawn: When America showed up on a map, it was the universe that got transformed", Boston Globe, October 11, 2009 Lester, Toby, "Putting America on the Map", Smithsonian, Volume 40, Number 9, p. 78, December 2009 Lester, Toby: The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America, Free Press, 2010, 496 p. . Chet Van Duzer, "Waldseemüller's World Maps of 1507 and 1516: Sources and Development", The Portolan, No.1, Winter 2012, pp. 8–20. Martin Lehmann, "The depiction of America on Martin Waldseemüller's world map from 1507 — Humanistic geography in the service of political propaganda", Cogent Arts & Humanities, 3 (1), 2016, DOI: 10.1080/23311983.2016.1152785 Martin Lehmann (ed.), Der Globus mundi Martin Waldseemüllers aus dem Jahre 1509: Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar, Berlin, Freiburg im Breisgau, Rombach Verlag, 2016. External links 1507 Waldseemüller Map from the US Library of Congress TOPS Lecture at Library of Congress, Drs. France and Easton National Geographic News: US Buys Oldest Map Marked "America" Martin Waldseemüller - Bell Library: Maps and Mapmakers World Digital Library presentation of Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorum que lustrationes or A Map of the Entire World According to the Traditional Method of Ptolemy and Corrected with Other Lands of Amerigo