Americae sive Novi Orbis, nova descriptio - Antique map

Author: Münster, Sebastian

Publisher: Petri, Sebastian

Published: Basel

Publishing year: 1588

America. "Americae sive Novi Orbis, nova descriptio". Original woodblock, 1588 from S. Munster's Cosmographey. Published in Basel by S. Petri, 1614. With decorative title-cartouche, a cartouche with explanatory notes and German title ("Die newen Inseln / so hinder Hispania gegen Orient / bey dem Land Indie gelegen") above the map. 31:36,5 cm (12 1/4 x 14 1/2 inch.).

Burden: The Mapping of North America, map nr. 67. - A map of the Americas. - Two minor holes in paper under the map (outside of the printed area).

Text and ornament from verso shines through (the map is printed on a thin paper).

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