Sebastian Münster

LP 1029

America, Continent

"Die newen Inseln so hinder Hispaniam gegen Orient bei dem Land Indie gelegen." - "Americae sive Novi Orbis nova descriptio".

Map of the continent of Amerika, with the southern areas of 'Terra del Fuego' and 'Nova Guinea'.

Coloured woodcut by Sebastian Münster, Basle 1575, 32 x 35,5 cm.

€ 1.980,-

Sebastian Münster (1489 – 1552)
Publisher of the famous 'Cosmographie', 1. edition published in Basle in 1544, from 1550 with 52 new maps.

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