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[MUNSTER (SEBASTIAN)] Typus universalis, [Basle, c.1554]

7 – 15 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

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[MUNSTER (SEBASTIAN)] Typus universalis, double-page hand-coloured woodcut map, sea-monsters and ships in the sea areas, windheads and clouds in the borders, woodcutter's initials "DK" lower left, Latin text on verso [Shirley 92], map 265 x 378mm., sheet 325 x 408mm., [Basle, c.1554]

Footnotes

A decorative World map prepared for the 1550 edition of Sebastian Munster's Geographia, a revision of that first used in the 1540 edition, with redesigned cloud borders, an altered Northwest Passage, and the monogram of the block-cutter, David Kandel.

Provenance: George Tanner, early ink signature within the historiated woodcut border to text on verso.

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