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MÜNSTER, Sebastian (1489-1552). Le Table des neufues lesquelles on appelle isles d'occident & d'Indie pour divers regard. Basel, ca 1568.
Wood-engraved hand-colored map of North and South America, image 255 x 342 mm (315 x 400 mm sheet). French text on verso.
From a French language edition of Münster's Cosmography. "In 1540 Sebastian Münster, who was to become one of the most influential cartographers in the sixteenth century, published his edition of Ptolemy's Geography with a further section of modern, more up to date maps... [The map of America] was the earliest of any note" (Burden). See Burden 12, state 11.
Wood-engraved hand-colored map of North and South America, image 255 x 342 mm (315 x 400 mm sheet). French text on verso.
From a French language edition of Münster's Cosmography. "In 1540 Sebastian Münster, who was to become one of the most influential cartographers in the sixteenth century, published his edition of Ptolemy's Geography with a further section of modern, more up to date maps... [The map of America] was the earliest of any note" (Burden). See Burden 12, state 11.