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Auction 176, Lot 766
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"[Facsimile] Cosmographei oder Beschreibung Aller Lander...", Munster, Sebastian

Subject: References, Facsimile Atlas

Period: 1987 (published)

Publication:

Color: Black & White

Size:
9.3 x 13.7 inches
23.6 x 34.8 cm
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This is a remarkable facsimile edition of Munster's 1550 Cosmographei, originally published by Henri Petri in Basel. This volume contains 1,234 pages of German text with numerous in-text illustrations and 125 maps, plans and bird's-eye views. This 1550 edition had a significant enlargement from the 1545 edition that contained only 31 maps. Published by de Haan in the Netherlands. Hardbound in full faux leather with gilt decorations and housed in a pictorial clamshell case.

References: cf. Shirley (BL Atlases) T.MUN-1c.

Condition: A

Contents are clean and bright and the binding is fine. Clamshell case has light wear and minor soiling.

Estimate: $300 - $375

Sold for: $240

Closed on 2/12/2020

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