Text-border with tritons flanking a vase at top, vertical borders with foliage and candelabre motif; horizontal border below with putti playing, printed from four blocks; on verso a map of asia (by holbein?); illustrations to a latin edition of münster's 'cosmographia'ptolemy, 'geographia universalis', basel: heinrich petri, 1545. Woodcut and letterpress. Date: between 1523 and 1540. Dimensions: Height: 253 mm (Borderline map); Height: 197 mm (Borderline recto); Height: 299 mm (Sheet); Width: 128 mm; Width: 344 mm; Width: 386 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Sebastian Münster. Collection: British Museum. Print, book-illustration, map (BM 1865,0114.1031 1)
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