Asia with Monsters

Date 1540
Technique Woodcut
Price $950.00
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SEBASTIAN MUNSTER (1488-1652)

ASIAE TABVLA  Vlll  1540 (45) 

Woodcut from Munster's edition of Geographia Universalis, Basel, Henri Petri. 1545 edition of Ptolemy.  Shows ancient Scythia Extra, India Gangen, Tartary: present day central Asia, Northern India, Pakistan and Southwest China. With the usual centerfold, some minor soiling and minor foxing at upper sheet edges. 10 3/8 x 13 1/2 inches, sheet 11 5/8 x 14 7/8 inches.

The map is enhanced by Wonderful decorative monsters from medieval legends. One of the classic monster maps.