[Map] Tabula Europae IX

Munster, Sebastian

Verlag: Heinrich Petri, Basel, 1550

Beschreibung

Munster's map of Greece & Turkey, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540 which includes the region west of the Black Sea and north of the Aegean and Adriatic Seas. The Geographia was a new and important edition of Ptolemy, with redesigned maps and revised text by Münster. On verso text with decorative woodcut border. Sebastian Munster (1488 - 1552), was an eminent mathematician and geographer, as well as professor of Hebrew at Basel University & produced his own version of Ptolemy's Geographia in 1540, after having produced a more basic world representation in conjunction with Hans Holbein in 1532. Uncolored, woodblock map with Latin text on verso, 13.5 x 10.5 inches. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 20229

Bibliografische Details

Titel: [Map] Tabula Europae IX

Verlag: Heinrich Petri, Basel

Erscheinungsdatum: 1550

Einband: Maps

Zustand: Very good condition

Auflage: First edition.