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 "Geo