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| Cartograph: |
Sebastian Münster (*1489 - †1552) |
| Title: |
Boehemer Koenigreich mit Bergen und Waelden gerings umb beschlossen |
| Year: |
Basle, circa 1550 |
| Sheet Size: |
34.5 x 42.0 cm (13.6 x 16.5 inches) |
| Plate Size: |
32.5 x 36.3 cm (12.8 x 14.3 inches) |
| Early, attractive coloured woodcut map from Bohemia in Czech Republic centred around Prague (Praha). From a German edition of Cosmographia from Sebastian Munster. |
| Centrefold back with Japan paper, minor losses around upper centrefold backed. |
| About the Cartograph/ Printer: Sebastian Münster was born 1489 in Ingelheim (Pfalz). First being a Franciscan, he became Professor for Theology, Hebrew and Mathematics after he converted to Protestantism in 1529. He became one of the most influencing geographers of the sixteenth century. His "Cosmographia", published in 1544, spread geographical knowledge wide over Europe. It was issued in nearly 40 editions and 6 languages. Münster was the first cartographer publishing each known continent on a separate map. His second important work was the "Geographia", a new edition of Ptolemys Geographia. He died May 1552 in Basel on Black Death. |
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