A woodcut map of the Holy Land

MUNSTER, Sebastian.

Terra Sancta XXIII Nova Tabula.
Basle: Henri Petri, 1552, Latin edition. Woodcut, sheet 300 x 375mm.

A woodcut map of the Holy Land in Biblical times, orientated with north to the right. This example comes from the last edition of Munster's 'Geographia', the only edition with the longitude and latitude bars. The map continued to be printed in the 'Cosmographia' for another 70 years.

LAOR: 526.
Stock ID : 18763