Antique Print-GERMAN HOUSES-TREES-DRAGON-ECHIDNA-BATTLE-Munster-1592

Beschreibung

Antique print, untitled. View of three small German houses and a wooden cooking shelter; several (mostly) fruit bearing trees (apple, pear, grapes). On the rear a dragon battling serpents led by Echidna. Woodcut on hand laid paper. Description: Sebastian Munster's 'Cosmographia, Beschreibung aller Lender'. These prints are from the 1592 German edition, published in Basel by Henrichum Petri (Heinrich Petri). Artists and Engravers: The author of this work is Sebastian Munster, a German cartographer, cosmographer and Christian scholar. He is best known for Cosmographia, the earliest German description of the world (in 6 parts. He was also the author of Horologiographia, Organum Uranicum and Rudimenta Mathematica. The woodcuts in this publication were made by a group of artists, among which Hans Holbein, Conrad Schnitt, David Kandel and Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch. Condition: Good, given age. Ghosting from text on the rear. A small nick in the top margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. Storage location: TPCRC-A3-20 The overall size is ca. 7.9 x 12.8 inch. The image size is ca. 5.8 x 3 inch. The overall size is ca. 20 x 32.5 cm. The image size is ca. 14.8 x 7.7 cm. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 47502

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