Tabula orientalis regionis, Asiae scilicet extremas complectens terras & regna
Description:
Appears in Münster's Cosmographiae universalis., Includes ill., No. on verso: 12., Relief shown pictorially., Sheet measures 30 x 38 cm. Stamp on verso: Jan 4 1961., and Text on verso: Nova tabula Indiae et totius ferè Asiae cum infinitis insulis, quae in mari Indico ...
Publisher:
H. Petri,
Subject (Geographic):
Asia--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552. Cosmographei and Petri, Heinrich, 1508-1579
Anghiera, Pietro Martire d’, 1457-1526 Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576 Fernandez Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo de, 1478-1557 Gastaldi, Giacomo, ca. 1500-ca. 1565 Jugge, Richard, ca. 1514-1577 Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552 Willes, Richard, fl. 1558-1573
Published / Created:
1577
Call Number:
Eca 555Eb
Image Count:
17
Alternative Title:
History of travayle in the West and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes
Description:
Eden's "Decades of the newe worlde," 1555, (ascribed to Pietro Martire) rearranged, some parts omitted, and a number of translations added. Described by ESTC as "A translation, with some omissions, of decades 1-3 of "De orbe novo" by Pietro Martire d'Anghiera; with additions from numerous other sources edited by Eden and Willes"., Imperfect: title page mutilated and repaired with no loss of text but with partial loss of manuscript presentation inscription: Given to the plantation of [blank] by S.G. [blank]. Additional manuscript notes and manuscript date: May 2, 1609. First and second leaves also repaired but with no loss of text., Numerous errors in foliation., Signatures: (.)⁴ [fleuron]⁶ A-B⁴ C-3O⁸., With six final errata and contents leaves., and Woodcut diagrams and historiated and floriated initials throughout text.
Publisher:
By Rychard Iugge,
Subject (Geographic):
America--Discovery and exploration--Early works to 1800, America--Early accounts to 1600, China--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Guinea--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Iran--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Japan--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Russia--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, and Scandinavia--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Frobisher, Martin,--Sir,--ca. 1535-1594 and Jenkinson, Anthony,--d. 1611
Subject (Topic):
Chron.--1577 (BAC RB), Indians--Early works to 1800, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, and Woodcut--Specimens--1577 (BAC RB)
Decorated with sea monsters, mermaids, exotic animals, and cannibals, this wood cut map provides a marked contrast to the simplistic diagrams considered the earliest printed world maps. While the latter presented a world view based in Judeo-Christian theo
Alternative Title:
Typus cosmographicus universalis and Typvs cosmographicvs vniversalis
Description:
Appears in Johann Huttich's Novus orbis regionum. Basel. 1532. and Relief shown pictorially.
Publisher:
[publisher not identified],
Subject (Name):
Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543 and Huttich, Johann, 1480?-1544. Novus orbis regionum.
Possibly from Münster's 1545 edition of Ptolemy's Geographia [Basel : Heinrich Petri, 1545]. and Sheet measures 31.5 x 39 cm. Stamp on verso: Karpinski-von Wieser Map Collection.
