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Cosmographia vniuersale, nella quale secondo che n'hanno parlato : ipiu veraci scrittori, son designati i siti di tutti gli paësi. I siti de tutte le parti del mondo habitabile, & le proprie doti: le tauole topographice delle regioni ...

Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552 · 1575 · In Colonia, : appresso gli heredi d'Arnoldo Byrckmanno. · 25 pictures

A 1575 Italian-language geographical compendium by Sebastian Münster, printed in Cologne by the heirs of Arnold Byrckmann, describing the regions and cities of the inhabited world for a general readership of scholars and travellers. Its pictures are small woodcut town views, landscapes with hills and trees, and animal scenes set in dense hatched linework, offering a designer compact models for map-like vignettes, skyline silhouettes and crosshatched foliage.

Geography · Imprint 1575

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