Cosmographey oder beschreibung aller Länder, Herrschafften, fürnem[m]sten Stetten: geschichten, gebreuche[n], handtierungen etc.

Münster, Sebastian · 1567 · 424 pictures

Sebastian Münster's Cosmographey, published in German in 1567 and drawn from the Heidelberg University Library, is a geographical and historical description of the world's lands, rulers, principal cities, customs and trades, written for German-speaking readers. Its woodcut views show walled towns on hills, a rural landscape with a battle or hunt scene, and a lake shore with buildings, each set beside a dense block of blackletter text with decorated initials that a designer could borrow for period-styled layouts.

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