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Description: Sebastian Munster's 'Cosmographia, Beschreibung aller Lender'. These prints are from the 1592 German edition, published in Basel by Henrichum Petri (Heinrich Petri).
Artists and Engravers: The author of this work is Sebastian Munster, a German cartographer, cosmographer and Christian scholar. He is best known for Cosmographia, the earliest German description of the world (in 6 parts. He was also the author of Horologiographia, Organum Uranicum and Rudimenta Mathematica. The woodcuts in this publication were made by a group of artists, among which Hans Holbein, Conrad Schnitt, David Kandel and Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch.
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Subject: Antique print, titled: 'Carmania' - A grape tree; a Turkestanian gathering hall. On the rear mountaineering.
Condition: Good, given age. Ghosting from text on the rear. Soiling and faint creases in the lower right margin corner. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 20 x 32.5 cm. The image size is ca. 6.8 x 7.5 cm.
Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 7.9 x 12.8 inch. The image size is ca. 2.7 x 3 inch.
Medium: Woodcut on hand laid paper.
Location: A156-07
SKU: TPC 47490.1
Section: MUNSTER
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