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Typus orbis descriptione Ptolemaei.
A finely colored example of this early16th Century map of the World according to the ancients, surrounded by 12 wind heads representing the various wind directions. The W...
Date: Vienne, (1522) 1541
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Sold in 2019
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[Armillary Sphere with Windheads]
Attractive woodblock print showing an armillary sphere with a large globe at center and surrounded by twelve classical winds. Each wind direction is depicted with a wind ...
Date: Strasbourg, 1522 - 1541
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Sold in 2019
Description of the World.
Set before the text on the first page of his book Cosmographiae , Sebastian Münster presents his view of the Cosmos. We find the Divinity presiding over his creation, w...
Date: Basel, 1544
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Sold in 2019
Universalis Cosmographia,
A very desirable cordiform (heart shaped) world map from Johann Honter's 'Rudimentum'. The map is a reduced version of Waldseemüller's and Apianus' earlier world maps. T...
Date: Zurich, ca. 1546
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Sold in 2020
Carta Marina Nova Tabula
Gastaldi's maritime world map. Europe and North America are connected via a long land bridge. The bridge passes from North America to Tierra Del Bacalaos, Tierra del Labr...
Date: Venice, 1548
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Sold in 2021
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[No title] Daniel's Dream Map.
A somewhat curious map of Europe, Africa, and Asia is to be found in apocalyptic literature originally emanating from Wittenberg in 1530 or even 1529. The map was used by...
Date: Hans Walther, Magdeburg 1545, 1550
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Sold in 2011
Typus Orbis Universalis
Beautiful example of Sebastian Münster's oval new world map, from the Cosmographia of 1550. Relief is shown pictorially. The map is embellished with fierce sea monsters...
Date: Basle, 1550
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Sold in 2014
Altera generalis tab. Secundum Ptol.
Lovely full color example Sebastian Münster's Ptolemaic world map, from the Cosmographia of 1550. Relief is shown pictorially. The Ptolemaic map shows the known world b...
Date: Basle, 1550
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Sold in 2014
Typus Orbis Universalis.
Münster's map of the World is one of the most recognized world maps of the 16th Century. This example is from the second woodblock, which includes the engraver David Kan...
Date: Basle, ca. 1550
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Sold in 2015
Typus Universalis.
A famous wood block map, cut by David Kandel. His initials identify this block as the second version of the modern world map to be used in the Cosmographia , that great c...
Date: Basle 1550
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Sold in 2016