1541 - Gotland to Crimea - Tabula Europae VIII - Antique Map

Item number: MID223Genuine Antique Engraved Map c. 1541 Maker: Munster.  Antique black and white engraved Strabonis Ptolemeic map by Munster, circa 1541. This map shows an area of Eastern Europe from the Black Sea to the Baltic, including Crimea near the bottom center and Gotland at the top, with Ukraine and Poland in between. This map is very similar to MID058, but clearly a different edition due to the different titles. Essentially, Sarmatia was a collection of independent tribes, much like ancient Germania, that encompassed parts of modern Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States, Central Asian nations and into central European countries such as Romania and Poland. Sebastian Munster was a German geographer, cartographer, Hebraist, and theologian. In 1540 he published a Latin edition of Ptolemy's Geographia with illustrations. He 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 appeare