1578 COSMOGRAPHY by Sebastian Munster antique RARE ILLUSTRATED w/ MAPS PIGSKIN

img{max-width:100%} MUNSTER, Sebastian (1489-1552). COSMOGRAPHEY. ODER BESCHREIBUNG ALLER LANDER HERRSCHAFFTENN VND FURNEMBSTEN STETTEN DES GANTZEN ERDBODENS: SAMPT JHREN GELEGENHEITEN, EYGENSCHAFFTEN, RELIGION, GEBREUCHEN, GESCHICHTEN VNND HANDTHIERUNGEN [...]. ERSTLICH DURCH HERRN SEBASTIAN MUNSTER ... Cosmography: that is, description of all countries... Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1578. Folio: 8.5 by 13.5" Thickness 3.5" [13] lvs-26 double-page pl.-mcccciiij-[1] pp. Title page laid down, the "Anzeigung was mehrung in dieser neuwen edition [...]" immediately bound after title, map 23 and 25 are of a smaller size, occasional manuscript notes in pencil and ink, wormholes throughout, but particularly in first and last part, some foxing with a small hole in the plan of Rome (ccxxvi), occasional minor repair, error in pagination - 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. With 2 world maps (incl. the first to name the Pacific Ocean "Mare Pacificum"), the four continents, 20 regional maps, incl. 3 large folding views of Worms, Heidelberg and Vienna, the map of the "New World", of Paris and Switzerland, almost 1000 woodcuts, by more than 120 artists incl. Hans Holbein the Younger, Urs Graf, Hans Rudolph Manuel Deutsch, and David Kandel, and many others. According to the title there are 43 new woodcuts, but after the title the "Anzeigung was mehrung in dieser neuwen edition [...] derzukommen und beschehen" lists 47 supplementary plates. Enriched with a later plate of Wittenberg by Hieronymus Nutzell, outside collation (Wittenberg, Paul Helwich, 1591). - Ref. VD16 M-6703. - Sabin 51392. - Burden N. 12 (state 13). - Shirley 76-77. - Not in ESTC. - Prov. Jacob Bering (supralibros). - Stadel (ms. entry). - Sailly (bookpl.). - Franz Xaver Anton von Schonau zu Saasen (id.). German text Original blind-embossed pigskin binding over wooden boards ========================================= From Wikipedia: The Cosmographia ("Cosmography") from 1544 by Sebastian Munster (1488–1552) is the earliest German-language description of the world. It also contains the earliest preserved text in the Latvian language. It had numerous editions in different languages including Latin, French (translated by François de Belleforest), Italian and Czech. Only extracts have been translated into English. The last German edition was published in 1628, long after Munster's death. 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. Among the notable maps within Cosmographia is the map "Tabula novarum insularum", which is credited as the first map to show the American continents as geographically discrete. the content consisted of: Book I: Astronomy, Mathematics, Physical Geography, Cartography Book II: England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Savoy, Trier, Italy Book III: Germany, Alsace, Switzerland, Austria, Carniola, Istria, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Pomerania, Prussia, Livland Book IV: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Walachia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Turkey Book V: Asia Minor, Cyprus, Armenia, Palestine, Arabia, Persia, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Scythia, Tartary, India, Ceylon, Burma, China, East Indies, Madagascar, Zanzibar, America Book VI: Mauritania, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, South Africa, East Africa ================================== Sebastian Münster (1488-1552) Sebastian Münster, a German geographer, cartographer, Hebraist, and theologian, was born in Ingelheim, near Mainz In 1505, he went to Heidelberg to enter the Franciscan order. In 1507 he went to Louvain, where he studied mathematics, geography, and astronomy. In 1509 Münster became a student of Konrad Pelikan, who taught Hebrew and Greek as well as mathematics and cosmography. In 1518 he completed his studies at the University of Tübingen. He was the favorite of the famous mathematician and astronomer Johann Stöffler. In 1524 Münster was appointed professor of Hebrew at Heidelberg University. In 1525 he published his first map as part of a broadside: The Instrument of the Suns combined a map, calendar, astrological almanac, sundial, and nocturnal on one attractive sheet, suitable for wall mounting. In 1540 he published a Latin edition of Ptolemy's Geographia with illustrations. He based this edition on the Latin translation by Willibald Pirkheimer and produced new maps to supplement the Ptolemaic maps. The twenty-seven maps of the Ptolemaic canon are supplemented by twenty-one new maps. Further editions appeared in 1541 and 1542. In 1544 he published the Cosmographia, a bulky book with 659 pages and some 520 woodcuts. Maps in this edition included three maps from the Ptolemaic canon and fourteen modern maps (from previous editions of the Geographia), as well as nine new maps. Later editions (1545, 1546, 1548) enlarged the Cosmographia. The 1550 edition contains cities, portraits, and costumes. These editions in both Latin and German constitute the full fruition of Münster's dream of a comprehensive geography. The Cosmographia was one of the most successful works of the 16th century. It passed through 24 editions in 100 years, in different languages, including Latin, French, Italian, English, and even Czech. The last German edition was published in 1628. He died at Basel of the plague in 1552. As a cartographer, Münster deserves special recognition for formulating a plan for a comprehensive and uniform map of a country. As a geographer, his greatest achievement was the Cosmographia. 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