SEBASTIAN MÜNSTER (1489-1552)
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SEBASTIAN MÜNSTER (1489-1552)

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SEBASTIAN MÜNSTER (1489-1552)
Africa XXV nova tabula. [Basel: S. Munster, 1545]. Double-page woodcut map, with '53' at bottom of text on verso, 310 x 372mm. First published in 1540, this was the first widely disseminated map to show the entire continent. The same woodcut was used in all editions of the Geographia and Cosmographia. Variant 5. Betz 3; Norwich 2; Tooley p. 85.

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Africa/Libya/Morland mit allen künigreichen so zü unsern darin gefunden werden. [Basel: S. Münster, 1550]. Double-page woodcut map, with 'xiii' at bottom of text on verso (some neat marginal restoration), 307 x 396mm. Variant 7 in German text editions of the Cosmographia. Betz 3; Norwich 2; Tooley p. 85. (2)