Acquired From: Leen Helmink
Colouring: Coloured
Condition: Very Good
Confirmed: No
Date Acquired: 10/4/2023
Dealers ID No.: 19173
Description: Sebastian Münster was a German mapmaker, cosmographer and professor of Hebrew at the University of Basel. Among his publications was a Latin edition of Claudius Ptolemys Geographia, first published in Basel in 1540. This edition included twenty-seven Ptolemaic maps and twenty-one modern maps.nFour years later, in 1544, Münster produced Cosmographey oder beschreibung aller Länder (commonly known by its Latin title Cosmographia universalis), an expansive and comprehensive work that incorporated a blend of geographical, historical, and cultural content. Initially published in German in 1544, it was later translated into Latin (1550) and French (1552) becoming one of the most widely read books of the sixteenth century.nFollowing Münsters death in 1552, his stepson Henric Petri continued to publish editions of the Cosmographia universalis until his own death in 1579. Subsequently, the publishing business passed to Sebastian Petri, who in 1588 commissioned a new set of woodblocks for the Cosmographia universalis. The revised edition incorporated updated maps, many of which were based on Abraham Orteliuss groundbreaking 1570 atlas.nThis map of Asia featured in the 1592 German edition of Cosmographia universalis, and is significantly updated from Münsters first map of Asia in 1540 (for the 1558 version View Record (#96)). On verso: Asia. Die Lender Asie nach jhrer Gelegenheit und weiten Begriff/zu Landt und Wasser/mit unzehlig Inseln gross und klein/wie es zu unsern zeiten erfahren und beschriben ist (Asia. The lands of Asia, according to their vastness and diversity, both on land and sea, including countless islands, large and small, as they are known and described in our time).
First published: Münster, Sebastian Cosmographei oder beschreibung aller länder…, Basel: Sebastian Petri, 1588
Image Size (cm): 36×31
Mapmaker: Münster, Sebastian (1488-1552)
Notes: Purchase details
Other states: First 1588
Price: 1250
Primary Category: Asia
Purchase Reference: Ledger
Rarity: R1 Extremely rare – occasionally seen on the market
Sheet size (cm): 40×33
Technique: Woodcut
This state: 1592, Second
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