The first atlas printed in Germany, the first atlas made from woodcut blocks, the first to contain hand-coloured maps and the first mapping of the world by a named cartographer
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius, 1482
The Book that “sealed the fate of ‘America’ as the name of the New World”
By MÜNSTER, Sebastian, 1550.
A plan from Sebastian Münster’s ‘Cosmographia’
By MÜNSTER, Sebastian, 1628].
Superb facsimile of the Vatican’s Ptolemy Cosmographia of 1472
By PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius,
The book that “sealed the fate of ‘America’ as the name of the New World”
By MÜNSTER, Sebastian, 1550