MUNSTER, SEBASTIAN
La cosmographie universelle, contenant la situation de toutes parties du monde, avec leurs proprietez & appartenances.
Folio (cm 33.5), nearly contemporary brown-hazel calf binding with raised bands on spine and gold title (corners of spine and covers lightly worn), inside a clean good copy. Woodcut vign. on title, woodcut portrait of the author, 14 double-page maps and 3 folding engraved views (Worms, Heidelberg and Vienna); in the text 37 beautiful double-page woodcut views of town and nearly 900 woodcuts with many subjects. Pp. (12 nn.), 1429 (but 1339), 1 blank, added at the end there 8 leaves with a manuscript index added by a 18th's cent. owner, not supplying any loss but just as a complement. Second edition in French, illustrated with the maps and views of the German edition of the same year. VD 16, M-6708; Adams M 1913; Alden-L. 556/33; Sabin 51398; Burmeister 93.
Basel, H. Petri, 1556
€ 22.000,00
