Fine Books and Manuscripts
Fine Books and Manuscripts
Lot Closed
July 16, 05:05 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Munster, Sebastian
Typus Universalis. [Basel: 1540]
Woodcut map (to sight: 360 x 285 mm). Handcoloring, twelve windheads in border; restoration to upper margin and center fold. Matted and framed; not examined out of frame.
The present lot represents the first version of Munster's world map, and the standard world map from its first appearance in the Geographia of 1540 until superseded in 1588.
REFERENCE
Shirley 77