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Lubeck old map Lubeco Germany Sebastian Munster 1574

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 Historical map of Lübeck, (Lubeco) Germany in bird's eye view with a putto on the left, another putto with a tablet with the name of the city.

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Lubeck old map Lubeco Germany Sebastian Munster 1574

Titel: Lubeco.

Lubeck in 1574 by Sebastian Munster

Description: Historical map of Lübeck, (Lubeco) Germany in bird's eye view with a putto on the left, another putto with a tablet with the name of the city.
Woodcut printed map in color with notes of the city.
Fine 440-year-old illustration made for the German edition of Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia, printed in Basel by Heinrich Petri.

Mapmaker:Sebastian Munster a German writer, historicus, mapmaker, cartographer, cosmographer born in Ingelheim Germany.
Münster completed his studies at the Universität Tübingen in 1518 led by Johannes Stöffler.

Munster published two books, an edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, in 1540, with 48 double-page woodcut maps,
and his Cosmographia, published in 1544, which contained upwards of five hundred woodcuts, including 24 double-page maps.

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Size:
Size sheet app.: 42 x 35 cm. 16.75 x 13.75 inches
Image app. : 39 x 9 cm. 15.25 x 3.5 inches.
Condition : Overall view very good, fold as published.