1588 Munster Map of Valais Canton of Switzerland, Rhone

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Helpful Links: Company Details - About ME Payment & Shipping Options View seller's other items Cartographer's Profile Ask Seller a q uestion Return Policy About Classical Images We have over 2,000 items for sale on our Ebay stores site. Please click to enter the stores and use the search engine to the left to search specifically for maps, prints, Atlases on the Classical Images Stores, thank you Click Walesia - Wassisserlandt....... This original leaf a map of the Valais Canton of Switzerland - centering on the Rhone River - was published in the 1588 edition of Sebastian Munsters Cosmographia , Basle. Sebastian Petri re-release of Cosomgraphia in 1588 produced some fine woodcut maps in the "copperplate style". The maps in this release were more sophisticated than with earlier publications of Cosomgraphia and were based on the 1570 release of Abraham Ortelius monumental work Theatrum Orbis Terrarum . Munster's dominance of the cartographic market was relatively short lived once Ortelius produced his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum in 1570. Munster's somewhat naive engravings of the world, continents and countries were revised and re-published by Sebastian Petri with more sophisticated maps in 1588, using the Ortelius Atlas as a guide. In Munsters defense though, he had little in the way of examples or reference to help produce read more

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