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MÜNSTER, Sebastian (1489-1552). Cosmographie universalis lib. VI. Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1550.
2° (318 x 206mm). Roman and italic types, Prester John's account in Hebrew on penultimate leaf. Title within historiated woodcut border, woodcut portrait of Münster on verso; 14 double-page woodcut maps, including 2 world maps, the first by David Kandel, showing the New World, and one map of the Americas; 41 double-page town views, including 3 panorama views on full fold-out sheets, approximately 970 woodcut text illustrations, from a variety of sources, including approximately 75 views and plans, of which about 10 full-page. (Gathering of contents signed *6 misbound between 2.2 and 3.1, short tear to l8 just into text, tiny hole to folding view of Vienna, a few short tears at creasefolds on folding views, occasional light browning.) Old calf, red edges (rebacked, perhaps preserving original gilt spine). Provenance: semi-erased inscription on recto of title seemingly connected with the erasure of large inscriptions on p1, B2, B7, X4, Y1, Kk4, Kk6, Mm1, Vv3, GG1, NN2 and smaller erasures on several other leaves — early ink marginalia — ink inscription dated 1768 on verso of title recording ownership of a house of the Pauline Fathers under the priorship of Bartholomaeus Orlaus — University of Hungary (stamp on verso of title with duplicate sale stamp).
FIRST LATIN EDITION. This Latin edition and the German edition, both published in the same year by Münster's son-in-law Heinrich Petri, were the first of Münster's works to contain town views. The map of the modern world, 'Typus Orbis Universalis,' also first appeared in this edition, replacing the Ptolemaic world map used in previous editions (cf. Shirley 77). Adams M-1908; Alden and Landis 550/27; Burmeister 86; Sabin 51379; Shirley 92.
2° (318 x 206mm). Roman and italic types, Prester John's account in Hebrew on penultimate leaf. Title within historiated woodcut border, woodcut portrait of Münster on verso; 14 double-page woodcut maps, including 2 world maps, the first by David Kandel, showing the New World, and one map of the Americas; 41 double-page town views, including 3 panorama views on full fold-out sheets, approximately 970 woodcut text illustrations, from a variety of sources, including approximately 75 views and plans, of which about 10 full-page. (Gathering of contents signed *6 misbound between 2.2 and 3.1, short tear to l8 just into text, tiny hole to folding view of Vienna, a few short tears at creasefolds on folding views, occasional light browning.) Old calf, red edges (rebacked, perhaps preserving original gilt spine). Provenance: semi-erased inscription on recto of title seemingly connected with the erasure of large inscriptions on p1, B2, B7, X4, Y1, Kk4, Kk6, Mm1, Vv3, GG1, NN2 and smaller erasures on several other leaves — early ink marginalia — ink inscription dated 1768 on verso of title recording ownership of a house of the Pauline Fathers under the priorship of Bartholomaeus Orlaus — University of Hungary (stamp on verso of title with duplicate sale stamp).
FIRST LATIN EDITION. This Latin edition and the German edition, both published in the same year by Münster's son-in-law Heinrich Petri, were the first of Münster's works to contain town views. The map of the modern world, 'Typus Orbis Universalis,' also first appeared in this edition, replacing the Ptolemaic world map used in previous editions (cf. Shirley 77). Adams M-1908; Alden and Landis 550/27; Burmeister 86; Sabin 51379; Shirley 92.
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