Münster’s Map of Scandinavia Engraver(s)_Joseph àMontalegre 32 x 49 cm

32 x 49 cm

but the series was superseded by the British volume of the Atlas Novus in the 1640s

[xvi] b/w illustrations

Theydon Garnon

Lake Taganyika (Tanganyika)

Münster’s Map of Scandinavia Engraver(s)_Joseph àMontalegre 32 x 49 cmThis map of Scandinavia is from Sebastian Mnster's Cosmographia. A compendium of topographical information, folklore and travels, it was first published with a modest 26 maps in 1544, mostly borrowed from his Ptolemy of 1540. A substantial enlargement took place in 1550, and after Mnster's death in 1552 his step son, Heinrich Petri (and his son, Sebastian), continued to revise and augment the work. A major revision took place in 1588, replacing some