Münster’s Map of Scandinavia Engraver(s)_Joseph àMontalegre sheet size 51 x 36

sheet size 51 x 36 cm

[xvi] b/w illustrations

Lake Taganyika (Tanganyika)

British Map engravers) suggests that he may have come form the north of England

32 x 49 cm

Münster’s Map of Scandinavia Engraver(s)_Joseph àMontalegre sheet size 51 x 36This map of Scandinavia is from Sebastian Mnster's Cosmographia. A compendium of topographical information, folklore and travels, it was first published with a modest 26 maps in 1544, mostly borrowed from his Ptolemy of 1540. A substantial enlargement took place in 1550, and after Mnster's death in 1552 his step son, Heinrich Petri (and his son, Sebastian), continued to revise and augment the work. A major revision took place in 1588, replacing some