1568 COSMOGRAPHY by Sebastian Munster antique RARE ILLUSTRATED w/ MAPS VELLUM

MUNSTER, Sebastian (1489-1552). 

COSMOGRAPHIE UNIVERSELLE


(translated by Francois de Belleforest)

[Basel, Henirich Petri; 1568]

Folio:   8 1/4 by 12 1/4 inches

Thickness 3 inches

full vellum , spine with raised bands and title label, new endpapers


- Rare and enlarged 1578 edition of Sebastian Münster's "Cosmographey" (1st 1544) including his famous "Geographia" (1st 1540), published the year before Sebastian Petri took over the publishing business from his father and stopped using Munster's original set of woodblocks. 
As the first and most exhaustive geography book published up to then, Munster's pictorial encyclopedia was the book that "sealed the fate of "America" as the name of the New World" by introducing Waldseemuller's choice of name in a popular and widely disseminated work.

Lacks 40 leaves , including title and world's maps. Otherwise very good condition.

But illustrated with about 900 by more than 120 artists incl. Hans Holbein the Younger, Urs Graf, Hans Rudolph Manuel Deutsch, and David Kandel, and many others. 

All 20 double page regional maps included

French text
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From Wikipedia:


The Cosmographia ("Cosmography") from 1544 by Sebastian Munster (1488–1552) is the earliest  description of the world.

It had numerous editions in different languages including Latin, French (translated by Francois de Belleforest), Italian and Czech.
Only extracts have been translated into English.
The Cosmographia was one of the most successful and popular books of the 16th century.
This success was due to the notable woodcuts (some by Hans Holbein the Younger, Urs Graf, Hans Rudolph Manuel Deutsch, and David Kandel). 
It was most important in reviving geography in 16th-century Europe. 
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