1556 COSMOGRAPHY by Sebastian Munster antique RARE ILLUSTRATED 16th cent. FOLIO
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1556 COSMOGRAPHY by Sebastian Munster antique RARE ILLUSTRATED 16th cent. FOLIO

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MUNSTER, Sebastian (1489-1552) La cosmographie universelle, contenant la situation de toutes les parties du mondeBasilea (Basel): Heinrich Petri; 1556Original brown calf , worn, skilfully restored, upper corner of the back cover destroyed; some occasional marginal tears and old repairs, upper corner of the last leaves worn, without affecting the textLacks some leaves.Lower part of the title and colophon repaired (in the title the lower part of the text provided in the manuscript)Woodcut vignette in the title, woodcut portrait of Munster, The 14 double-page woodcut maps are missing (only the left half of the double-page globe is present), Some other leaves are missing  including views of cities (of which 13 are still present here), the double-page woodcut of "land and sea monsters" is missing,  and also lacks view of Vienna (Worms and Heidelberg are present) pp. (20), 1429, 1 white, still present about 45 other maps and views in the text; and about 900 small woodcuts in the text by more

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