Italy - Münster - Cosmographiae, Descriptio Italiae, woodcut, 1550 - Old maps for sale

Author: Münster, Sebastian

Publisher: Petri, Heinrich

Published: Basel

Publishing year: 1550

Italy. “Descriptio Italiae …”. Original woodcuts, S. Münster, ‘Cosmographiae univesalis …’, Basel, H. Petrus, 1550. A full sheet from a book with woodcuts of the whole of Italy, Corsica and Sardinia (7,5:13 cm), with an initial on the front (137) and a full-page woodcut of northern Italy (23:17 cm; a south-facing map of the region between Venice, Vicenza, Piacenza, Turin and Genoa in the north and Rome and Naples in the south, including Corsica and the northern part of Sardinia) on the reverse (138). On a sheet sized 30:19,5 cm (11 3/4 x 7 3/4 inch.).