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Lot 18

AMERICA
MÜNSTER (SEBASTIAN) Tabula novarum insularum, quas diversis respectibus Occidentales & Indianas vocant

19 June 2013, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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AMERICA

MÜNSTER (SEBASTIAN) Tabula novarum insularum, quas diversis respectibus Occidentales & Indianas vocant, woodcut map, decorated with a large cut of Magellan's ship "Victoria", Latin text on verso, [Burden 12, state 5], 330 x 428mm., [Basel, 1550]

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One of the earliest separate maps of America, and the first printed map on which the Pacific Ocean ("Mare pacificum") is named. The map's subsequent inclusion in Münster's Cosmography, "first published in 1544, sealed the fate of 'America' as the name of the New World" (Burden).

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