1628 Munster Leaf - 1356 Earthquake Basel, Switzerland
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Helpful Links: Company Details - About ME Page View seller's other items Ask Seller a q uestion Cartographer's Profile Payment & Shipping Options 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 Von Erdbidem diezu Basel geschehen Feyndt This original antique print of Basel Switzerland after the great earthquake of 1356 was published in the 1628 last 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 what was
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