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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF URSULA SPRINGER
MÜNSTER, Sebastian (1489-1552). Cosmographiae universalis lib. VI. Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1550.
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MÜNSTER, Sebastian (1489-1552). Cosmographiae universalis lib. VI. Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1550.
The definitive edition: the first to include David Kandel’s important world map and the first of Münster’s works to include the town views. The Latin and the German versions were both published in 1550. Alden and Landis 550/27; Sabin 51379; Shirley 92.
Folio (316 x 210mm). Title-page within woodcut border and with 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 a map of the Americas; 40 woodcut double-page town views; a double-page woodcut of sea and land monsters; approximately 75 other maps and views in the text; and 900 small further woodcuts in text (some repeated); printer’s device on last page (title re-hinged, some pale corner dampstain which is heavier in book 3, intermittent toning and minor stains, scattered old small repairs along top margin affecting headlines on 2 leaves, small repair to verso of Swabia map, marginal repair to Sea Monsters on 2L3, Rome view with 2 closed tears, last leaf with repaired tear and pen trials). Vellum over boards, gilt-lettered spine label (minor soiling, turn-ins lifting, removed bookplate). Provenance: some early Latin marginalia.
The definitive edition: the first to include David Kandel’s important world map and the first of Münster’s works to include the town views. The Latin and the German versions were both published in 1550. Alden and Landis 550/27; Sabin 51379; Shirley 92.
Folio (316 x 210mm). Title-page within woodcut border and with 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 a map of the Americas; 40 woodcut double-page town views; a double-page woodcut of sea and land monsters; approximately 75 other maps and views in the text; and 900 small further woodcuts in text (some repeated); printer’s device on last page (title re-hinged, some pale corner dampstain which is heavier in book 3, intermittent toning and minor stains, scattered old small repairs along top margin affecting headlines on 2 leaves, small repair to verso of Swabia map, marginal repair to Sea Monsters on 2L3, Rome view with 2 closed tears, last leaf with repaired tear and pen trials). Vellum over boards, gilt-lettered spine label (minor soiling, turn-ins lifting, removed bookplate). Provenance: some early Latin marginalia.