Munster Archives - Daniel Crouch Rare Books https://crouchrarebooks.com/gallery-tag/munster/ Rare Maps, Vintage Maps, Antique Maps, Rare Atlases, Rare Books Fri, 16 May 2025 11:48:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/dcrb-favicon-100x100.png Munster Archives - Daniel Crouch Rare Books https://crouchrarebooks.com/gallery-tag/munster/ 32 32 238712441 The Consolidation of Cartography https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-seminal-standardization-of-cartography/ Tue, 18 Feb 2025 03:50:59 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-seminal-standardization-of-cartography/ By MÜNSTER, Sebastian, 1528.

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]]> Quarto (215 x 150 mm). Letterpress title-page, woodcut map and three illustrations, floriated initials abundantly throughout; later grey paper boards, title printed on spine, bottom margins untrimmed, later endpapers, small tears in final two leaves skilfully restored, very small loss to text in upper left corner of D4.

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]]> 33689 The work that turned Europe Upside Down https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/first-edition-of-munsters-first-geographical-work-with-his-first-inverted-map/ Sun, 26 Jan 2025 10:22:10 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/first-edition-of-munsters-first-geographical-work-with-his-first-inverted-map/ By MÜNSTER, Sebastian, 1536.

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]]> Quarto (200 by 150mm). Title-page woodcut vignette, two double-page woodcut maps at the rear, one bound upside-down, one full-page map, illustrated profusely throughout with woodcuts, including two surveying instruments hand-coloured in part; modern vellum, title inked to spine, bookbinder’s ticket on the front pastedown, top edge dyed blue, some damp stains in margins throughout, small tear to bottom margin at D2-3, not affecting text, small early repairs to heads of both double-page maps.

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]]> 33688 The Book that “sealed the fate of ‘America’ as the name of the New World” https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-book-that-sealed-the-fate-of-america-as-the-name-of-the-new-world-3/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 03:12:38 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-book-that-sealed-the-fate-of-america-as-the-name-of-the-new-world-3/ By MÜNSTER, Sebastian, 1550.

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]]> Folio (330 by 215mm). Letterpress title-page with woodcut architectural border, 111 woodcut maps, plans, and views, including 63 double-page, illustrated with over 900 vignette woodcuts; contemporary panelled pigskin over bevelled oak boards, roll-tooled border containing small portraits, double central panels composed of different flower roll tools, original brass clasps and catches, manuscript title on a paper label on the spine, in five compartments separated by raised bands, marginal annotations in two hands, including in Hebrew, a few small tears in top and bottom margins, two affecting text, one skilfully repaired, water stains towards the end in the bottom margins.

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]]> 32838 Sebastian Münster https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/sebastian-munster/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:16:24 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/sebastian-munster/ By H[ONDIUS, Hendrik], 1602].

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