Tabula nouarum insnlarum, quas diuersis respectibus Occidentales & Indianas uocant - Alte Landkarte

Autor: Münster, Seb.

Verlag: Münster, Seb.

Verlagsort: Basle

Erscheinungsjahr : 1540

Amerika."Tabula novarum insularum, quas diversis respectibus Occidentales & Indianas vocant". Original woodcut by Seb. Münster, Basle, ca. 1540. With a ship, 2 flags and "Canibali". 25,5:34,5 cm (10 x 13 1/2 inch. - picture only, without the title).

One of the most influential early maps of the Americas, first issued as part of a series of modern, up to date maps in Münster's 1540 edition of Ptolemy's Geography, and included by him in his Cosmographia Universalis, first published in 1544. Two wormholes at upper margin near to centerfold effecting the picture (ca. 1cm).

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Stichwörter: Alte Landkarte, Alte Landkarten, Antike Karten, Tabula nouarum insnlarum, quas diuersis respectibus Occidentales & Indianas uocant