Cosmographei oder beschreibung aller länder, herrschafften, fürnemsten stetten, geschichte[n], gebreüchen, hantierungen etc.

Münster, Sebastian, Sebastian, Münster · 1553 · Petri · 285 pictures

Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia, printed by Petri in Basel in 1553, is a German-language world geography and history for a general readership of merchants, scholars and princes. Its pages mix woodcut maps of regions and islands with town views, ornamental initials and dense black-letter text. A designer might draw on the framed woodcut maps, with their compass-like lettering and stylised coastlines, and on the decorative initials.

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