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The World."Typus Orbis a Ptol. Descriptus". Orig. woodcut, S. Munster after C. Ptolemy's map of the Ancient World. Basle, H. Petri, 1540. With Latin title at the top and 12 classical windheads in the decorative region outside the map, each named....

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Münster, Sebastian

Henric Petri

Basle

1540

The World."Typus Orbis a Ptol. Descriptus". Orig. woodcut, S. Munster after C. Ptolemy's map of the Ancient World. Basle, H. Petri, 1540. With Latin title at the top and 12 classical windheads in the decorative region outside the map, each named. 27:34,5 cm (10 3/4 x 13 3/4 inch).

Shirley: The Mapping of the World, map 76. - A decorative Ptolemaic world map from the rare first edition of Munster's "Geographia Universalis".

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