Woodcut map with hand coloring, sight size apprx 6-3/4" x 6-1/4". Overall with French mat and gold painted wood frame apprx 14-1/2" x 13-3/4". Munster was one of the first great cartographers, working in the era before the Dutch "modern" cartographers. He studiously compiled the best information available in the sixteenth century, corresponding with scholars all around Europe, visiting book fairs and libraries whenever possible. Munster issued many influential maps in his editions of Ptolemy's Geographia and his own Cosmographia which were published beginning in 1540.
200/400 Sold $161.00
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