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Map title
Americae sive novi Orbis, nova Descriptio

Mapmakers
Munster

Location shown
North and south America.

Date & author
Munster -- this issue [??: 1590]

Atlas
Cosmographiae Universalis -- Henrich Petri

Price & condition
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Color
Black/white

Verso
German text

Size
Plate inches 13.5 x 12 cm 33.75 x 30 Paper inches 15.5 x 13 cm 38.75 x 32.5

Technique
Woodcut

Note
Influential wood cut map from Munsters Cosmographia, based on Ortelius 1570 map, with the bulge on the west coast of South America. This map replaced the highly speculative Munster map of 1540

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Code
#54


Map title
Hispania Nova Tabula

Mapmakers
Munster

Location shown
Spain

Date & author
Munster -- this issue [Basel: 1542]

Atlas
Geographia -- Henrich Petri

Price & condition
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Color
Original colors

Verso
Latin text pag.31

Size
Plate inches 13.5 x 10 cm 33.75 x 25 Paper inches 15 x 12 cm 37.5 x 30

Technique
Woodcut

Note
No particular notes for this maps

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Code
#92


Map title
Tabula Europae X

Mapmakers
Munster

Location shown
Greece

Date & author
Munster -- this issue [Basel: 1540]

Atlas
Geographia -- Henrich Petri

Price & condition
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Color
Black/white

Verso
Latin text pag.12

Size
Plate inches 12.5 x 10 cm 31.25 x 25 Paper inches 15 x 12 cm 37.5 x 30

Technique
Woodcut

Note
No particular notes for this maps

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Code
#93


Map title
Tabula Europae VIII

Mapmakers
Munster

Location shown
Russia

Date & author
Munster -- this issue [Basel: 1545]

Atlas
Geographia -- Henrich Petri

Price & condition
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Color
Black/white

Verso
Latin text pag.10

Size
Plate inches 13 x 10 cm 32.5 x 25 Paper inches 16 x 12 cm 40 x 30

Technique
Woodcut

Note
No particular notes for this maps

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Code
#94


Map title
La figure de la place de Rome...

Mapmakers
Munster

Location shown
Rome

Date & author
Munster -- this issue [Basel: 1550]

Atlas
Cosmographiae Universalis -- Henrich Petri

Price & condition
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Color
Black/white

Verso
French text pag.550

Size
Plate inches 9 x 8.5 cm 22.5 x 21.25 Paper inches 16.5 x 13.5 cm 41.25 x 33.75

Technique
Woodcut

Note
No particular notes for this maps

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Code
#95


Map title
German Rhine

Mapmakers
Munster

Location shown
The Rhine Valley in Germany

Date & author
Munster -- this issue [???: 1560]

Atlas
Cosmographiae Universalis -- Henrich Petri

Price & condition
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Color
Black/white

Verso
German text

Size
Plate inches 6.5 x 10 cm 16.25 x 25 Paper inches 7.5 x 11.5 cm 18.75 x 28.75

Technique
Woodcut

Note
No particular notes for this maps

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Code
#97


Map title
Prag area

Mapmakers
Munster

Location shown
Prag area

Date & author
Munster -- this issue [???: 1560]

Atlas
Cosmographiae Universalis -- Henrich Petri

Price & condition
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Color
Black/white

Verso
German text

Size
Plate inches 3.5 x 5.5 cm 8.75 x 13.75 Paper inches 17.5 x 11.5 cm 43.75 x 28.75

Technique
Woodcut

Note
No particular notes for this maps

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Code
#98


Map title
Die Siebenburg...

Mapmakers
Munster

Location shown
Transylvania and Bosnia

Date & author
Munster -- this issue [Basel: 1598]

Atlas
Cosmographiae Universalis -- Henrich Petri

Price & condition
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Color
Black/white

Verso
German text pag.???

Size
Plate inches 14 x 12 cm 35 x 30 Paper inches 16 x 13 cm 40 x 32.5

Technique
Woodcut

Note
Central Romania, Moldova at the top right and Wallachia at the bottom right.

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Code
#112


Map title
Sclavonia oder Windisch Marck Bossen Crabaten ...

Mapmakers
Munster

Location shown
Slovenia,Kroatia,Bosnia,Triest

Date & author
Munster -- this issue [Basel: 15??]

Atlas
Cosmographiae Universalis -- Henrich Petri

Price & condition
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Color
Black/white

Verso
German text pag.???

Size
Plate inches 13.5 x 10 cm 33.75 x 25 Paper inches 16 x 12.5 cm 40 x 31.25

Technique
Woodcut

Note


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Code
#113


Map title
Narbonensis,Lugdunensis,Belgica and Celtica

Mapmakers
Munster

Location shown
France

Date & author
Munster -- this issue [Basel: 1598]

Atlas
Cosmographiae Universalis -- Henrich Petri

Price & condition
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Color
Black/white

Verso
German text pag.???

Size
Plate inches 14 x 12 cm 35 x 30 Paper inches 17 x 13 cm 42.5 x 32.5

Technique
Woodcut

Note
All France

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Code
#114


Map title
Die Siebenburg...

Mapmakers
Munster

Location shown
Transylvania and est Romania

Date & author
Munster -- this issue [Basel: 1598]

Atlas
Cosmographiae Universalis -- Henrich Petri

Price & condition
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Color
Black/white

Verso
German text pag.???

Size
Plate inches 13.5 x 10 cm 33.75 x 25 Paper inches 16 x 13 cm 40 x 32.5

Technique
Woodcut

Note
No particular notes for this maps

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Code
#115


Map title
Tabula Asiae VIII

Mapmakers
Munster

Location shown
Central Asia

Date & author
Munster -- this issue [Basel: 1540]

Atlas
Geographia -- Henrich Petri

Price & condition
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Color
Black/white

Verso
Latin text pag.24

Size
Plate inches 13.5 x 10 cm 33.75 x 25 Paper inches 15 x 12 cm 37.5 x 30

Technique
Woodcut

Note
Central Asia North of India. Showing in the margin on either side three different imaginary human congenital malformations, as well as a one legged bird.

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Code
#174


Map title
Tabula Asiae V

Mapmakers
Munster

Location shown
Iran and Iraq

Date & author
Munster -- this issue [Basel: 1540]

Atlas
Geographia -- Henrich Petri

Price & condition
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Color
Black/white

Verso
Latin text pag.21

Size
Plate inches 13.5 x 10 cm 33.75 x 25 Paper inches 15 x 12 cm 37.5 x 30

Technique
Woodcut

Note
Ptolemaic map of the region between the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. Numerous ancient cities including Babylon.

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Code
#175


Map title
Tabula Asiae IX

Mapmakers
Munster

Location shown
Pakistan

Date & author
Munster -- this issue [Basel: 1542]

Atlas
Geographia -- Henrich Petri

Price & condition
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Color
Black/white

Verso
Latin text pag.21

Size
Plate inches 13 x 10 cm 32.5 x 25 Paper inches 15 x 12 cm 37.5 x 30

Technique
Woodcut

Note
Ptolemaic map of the region between the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. Numerous ancient cities including Babylon.

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Code
#176


Map title
Sumatra ein grosse Inseln so von den alten Geographen Taprobana ist genent worden

Mapmakers
Munster

Location shown
Ceylon

Date & author
Munster -- this issue [Basel: 1555]

Atlas
Cosmographiae Universalis -- Henrich Petri

Price & condition
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Color
Black/white

Verso
German text

Size
Plate inches 13 x 9.5 cm 32.5 x 23.75 Paper inches 12 x 16 cm 30 x 40

Technique
Woodcut

Note
With large elephant vignette. Tabulae Asiae XII.

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Code
#177


Map title
Syria Cypern Palestina Mesopotamia Babylonia Chaldea und zwey Arabia mit Bergen Wassern und Statten

Mapmakers
Munster

Location shown
Holy Land

Date & author
Munster -- this issue [Basel: 1555]

Atlas
Cosmographiae Universalis -- Henrich Petri

Price & condition
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Color
Black/white

Verso
German text

Size
Plate inches 13.5 x 10 cm 33.75 x 25 Paper inches 16 x 12.5 cm 40 x 31.25

Technique
Woodcut

Note
Middle East from the Nile Delta to the southern coast of Turkey. Tabulae Asiae IV.

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Code
#178


Map title
Asia

Mapmakers
Munster

Location shown
Asia

Date & author
Munster -- this issue [Basle: 1628]

Atlas
Cosmographiae Universalis -- Henrich Petri

Price & condition
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Color
Black/white

Verso
German text

Size
Plate inches 14 x 12 cm 35 x 30 Paper inches 17 x 14.5 cm 42.5 x 36.25

Technique
Woodcut

Note


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Code
#213


Map title
Europe

Mapmakers
Munster

Location shown
Europe

Date & author
Munster -- this issue [Basle: 1578]

Atlas
Cosmographiae Universalis -- Henrich Petri

Price & condition
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Color
Black/white

Verso
German text

Size
Plate inches 14 x 12 cm 35 x 30 Paper inches 17 x 14.5 cm 42.5 x 36.25

Technique
Woodcut

Note


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Code
#214


Map title
Tavola dell'isole nuove, le quali son nominate occidentali, & indiane per diversi rispetti

Mapmakers
Munster

Location shown
North and south America.

Date & author
Munster -- this issue [Vernice: 1571]

Atlas
Cosmographiae Universalis -- Henrich Petri

Price & condition
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Color
Black/white

Verso
Italian text

Size
Plate inches 13.25 x 10.25 cm 33.125 x 25.625 Paper inches 16.5 x 12.5 cm 41.25 x 31.25

Technique
Woodcut

Note
Superb woodcut map of North/South America, has Magellan's ship in the Pacific along with large Zipangi (Japan). Cathay just makes page upper left. This is the first separate printed map of the Western Hemisphere.

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Code
#401


Map title
Aphricae Tabula III

Mapmakers
Munster

Location shown
Egypt

Date & author
Munster -- this issue [Basel: 1545]

Atlas
Geographia -- Henrich Petri

Price & condition
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Color
Black/white

Verso
Latin text pag.15

Size
Plate inches 13.5 x 10 cm 33.75 x 25 Paper inches 15 x 12 cm 37.5 x 30

Technique
Woodcut

Note


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Code
#507

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