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MÜNSTER (Sebastian). Cosmographiae universalis Lib. VI... Basel, Henry Pierre, March 1550. Very large vol. in-fol. (318x204), wood covered with stamped sow skin (Binding of the time, later straps).
FIRST LATIN EDITION of this famous work, it is also the most complete and most
(see Gallois: Les Géographes allemands, pp. 190-236). 12 ff., 14 double-page maps, 1162 pp. and 1 ff. with double folded leaves for the views of Vienna, Florence and Worms (the 8 ff. of the latter map not included in the pagination). Harisse, 300; Leclerc, 396, both give incomplete collations. In addition to the engraved title with the portrait of Münster and the 14 large maps, the volume is decorated with 39 beautiful city views which appear here for the first time and which are remarkably engraved among which the oldest plan of Paris and 1021 figures in the text. Several engraver's monograms can be noticed: R.M.D. (Rodolphe Manuel Deutsch) for the crocodile plate, the map of Paris is signed Hans Manuel Deutsch, monogram D. K. (David Kendel) on other plates.
The American part is represented by the large Münster map (where South America is called Brazil, and North America, Florida; the Ptolemy map with a southern continent, and the famous Novus Orbis map, with a fairly accurate representation of the Isthmus of Panama. The fifth book, De Novis Insulis (pp. 1099 to 1113) gives, with figures, the history of the successive navigations of Columbus, the Portuguese, Pinzon, Vespuca, etc. The whole part relating to central and eastern Europe is most important, and on these regions Münster gives the first serious information that had been available up to then.
Münster, whom his contemporaries called the German Stahan, is, with Conrad Celtès, the founder of descriptive geography. This beautiful book is very rarely complete and the world map is almost always missing.
THIS COPY, IN PERIOD CONDITION AND PERFECTLY PURE, IS REMARKABLY
PRESERVED.
Adams M1908; Alden and Landis 550/27; Burmeister 86; Sabin 51379; Shirley 92.
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