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Cosmographiæ uniuersalis lib. VI. in quibus iuxta certioris fidei scriptorum traditionem describuntur, omnium habitabilis orbis partium situs, propriæq[ue] dotes. regionum topographicæ effigies ...

Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552 · 1554 · Basileae : apud Henrichum Petri · 45 pictures

Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia, printed in Basel in 1554 by Henricus Petri, is a Latin universal geography for scholars and map-readers of its day. Its pictures are woodcut town views and regional maps with dense, fine hatching, showing coastlines, rivers, walled towns and hillside settlements a designer could borrow for antique cartographic texture.

Geography · Imprint 1554

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