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MÜNSTER, Sebastian 
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Cosmographei, oder beschreibung aller lander, herrschafften, fürnemsten..., 1550 Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1550. 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. 330 by 215mm.
The Book that "sealed the fate of 'America' as the name of the New World"
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