SEBASTIAN MÜNSTER (1488-1552)

Name: Die neuwen Inseln. [Basel: c. 1574].
Brand: SEBASTIAN MÜNSTER (1488-1552)
Price: 4800.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 6,000

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Die neuwen Inseln. [Basel: c. 1574].

SEBASTIAN MÜNSTER (1488-1552)

Price Realised GBP 6,000

MÜNSTER, Sebastian (1488-1552). Die neuwen Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land Indic legen. [Basel: c. 1574].

Woodcut double-page map, coloured by a contemporary hand, with the Spanish flag flying over one of her dominions in the Caribbean and the Portuguese flag in the South Atlantic, the Strait of Magellan named, and with a large image of Magellan's ship Victoria in the Pacific, Japan depicted and named as Zipangri, Yucatan shown as a separate island in the Gulf of Mexico, the landmasses with forests, ranges of hills and with cannibals depicted in eastern South America, 256 x 342mm. (border), 310 x 407mm. (sheet)

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