Lot 60
Three Hand-Colored Woodcuts from "Cosmographia" by Sebastian Münster – Maps of Palestine and Asia – Basel, 1592
Maps of Palestine and Asia, three hand-colored woodcuts from "Cosmography" by cartographer Sebastian Münster; part V, "Von den Ländern Asie" (From the Countries of Asia) [Basel: Sebastianum Henricpetri, 1592]. German.
1. Map of Palestine. The shoreline runs from south Anatolia to the Nile Delta. Two insets with text. Woodcut by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch (1525-1571), signed in the plate with the initials RMD.
2. Map of Asia Minor (the Asian part of Turkey).
3. Map of the Caucasus (between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea).
Leaves: 33.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Creases and tears, some of them open, reinforced with strips of paper and tape. Small wormholes to margins of leaves.
