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3 beautiful coloured woodcut leaves by S. Münster.

These very old woodcuts were published in Sebastian Munster's Cosmographey: das ist, Beschreibung Aller Länder It was published in Basel, Henricpetri ca. 1590.

The work was a massive chronicle of all the geographical knowledge of the world to that point. The work included world maps as well as views of smaller cities and woodcut illustrations of historical subjects, mythology, natural history and ethnography.

Munster was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and a Hebrew scholar. He also became a Franciscan monk at an early age. Munster's Cosmographia was the first work of scientific based knowledge in the German language.

Dimensions: 36,5 x 22,8 cm /34,7 x 22,2 cm.

Good condition, a few spots, paper slightly browned due to age.

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