Cosmographey oder beschreibung aller Länder/ Herrschafften/ fürnem[m]sten Stetten/ geschichten/ gebreüchen/ handtierungen, [et]c.

Münster, Sebastian, Petri, Heinrich [Verl.] · 1574 · 301 pictures

This is a 1574 German cosmography by Sebastian Münster, printed in Basel by Heinrich Petri for a general readership interested in lands, rulers and customs. The pages carry woodcut town views with lettered keys, panoramic cityscapes set in landscape, and small historical scenes. A designer could take the dense, labelled bird's-eye city panoramas as models for layered map-like compositions, and the ornamental frames as border references.

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