Title of the map:
"Nouvelle description de Poloigne & Hongrie"
Very unusual antique wood engraved map of Poland and Hungary, by Sebastian MUNSTER (1488-1552).
French text on verso.
The map extends from Moravia and Bosnia in west to Moscovia and Pont Euxin in east. It shows Poland, White Russia, Crimea, Hungary, a part of Bosnia and Bulgaria, with the course of danube to the Black Sea.
Edition : Cosmographie Universelle du Monde de Sebastian Munster, French edition, 1568, Basle, 16th Century.
Size of the map with margins : 37 x 29,5 cm / 14,5 x 11,4 inches
Condition : good condition, small renforts in lower margin on the back and on the back of the center margin, handed colored.
From a French language edition of Munster's Cosmography.
Sebastian Munster was one of the most influential cartographers in the 16th century.
Sebastian Münster (20 January 1488 – 26 May 1552) was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and a Christian Hebraist scholar. His work, the Cosmographia, was the earliest description of the world.
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