1550 SUPERB handcol KING & QUEEN of SWEDEN by MÜNSTER
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1550 MÜNSTER leaf SUPERB handcoloured Portraits of KING and QUEEN of SWEDEN / DENMARK ORIGINAL WOODCUTS 457 years old !! ROYAL GENEALOGY of SWEDEN Sebastian Münster Woodcuts depicting: Queen Margaret I of Denmark and King Sten Sture the Younger of Sweden Swedish royal genealogy tree This superb and sought after original woodcut leaf is 457 years old!! Leaf measures 11.7 x 7.8 inches Woodcuts 3 x 1.8 / 2.3 x 1.2 inches Published in: "Cosmographia Universalis" (4th Book) by Sebastian Münster. Printed in Basle, by Heinrich Petri, 1550. Text in German treating Swedish royalty. Sebastian Münster was born in 1488 at Ingelheim near Mainz and died in 1552 at Basel . He was a cartographer, cosmographer, and a Hebrew scholar. Münster had been appointed to the University of Basel in 1527. As Professor of Hebrew, he edited the Hebrew Bible, accompanied by a Latin translation. His work, the "Cosmographia Universalis" from 1544 was the earliest German description of the world. The Cosmographia was one of the most successful and popular books of the 16th century. It passed through 24 editions in 100 years. This success was due to the fascinating woodcuts (some by Hans Holbein the Younger, Urs Graf, Hans Rudolph Manuel Deutsch, and David Kandel). The 1550 German edition contains cities, portraits, and costumes and belongs with the
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