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Lot 376
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
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MÜNSTER, Sebastian (1489-1552). Tabula novarum insularum, quas diversis respectibus Occidentales & Indianas vocant. [Basel, ca 1559].
Woodcut map of North and South America, sheet 12 x 15 7/8 mm (305 x 405 mm). Burden's state 10 with Latin text on verso, including the word "ova" before "Insula Atlantica quam..." in South America, and lacking Temistitian.
Published in both Ptolemy's Geographia (as the present copy), and Münster's own Cosmography. The earliest map to depict all of the Americas, and the first to name the Pacific Ocean ("Mare Pacificum"), with a galleon depiction Magellans' Victoria. Burden 12.