MÜNSTER SEBASTIAN
Das Heilig Landt mit Ausscheilung der zwölff Geschlechter
Date: Basle,1588 about
Holy Land
5071
Subject: Holy Land
380,00 €
Woodcut, hand colour, mm 310x365 on sheet mm 353x465. From “Cosmographey”, one of the most famous geographical-historical works after the “Liber Chonicarum” by Schedel of 1493. Good condition, two little restored tears at centrefold and a third in bottom margin. The map shows Holy Land as divided among the 12 Tribes even if they are not shown on the map itself. Two inset explanatory texts. After Tilemannus Stella.
Printed by Henric Petri in 1588, in which year new woodcuts were prepared for the Cosmographia. Laor, Maps of the Holy Land 532.
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