APHRICAE TABVLA IIII

Original woodblock printed map
Original Color
257 x 345 mm (not including title above map)
Map # AFS-128   
$ 1,000

Click Here for Large Image
 

This map first appeared in Munster's edition of Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia in 1540 and in the three subsequent editions of 1542, 1545, and 1552.  There were only four editions of Munster's Geographia, all in Latin.  

Sebastian Munster (1489-1552) was one of the three great cartographers who dominated the sixteenth century, along with Mercator and Ortelius, "and of these three, Munster probably had the widest influence in spreading geographical knowledge throughout Europe in the middle years of the century" (Moreland & Bannister, p.78). "[Munster's] Cosmographia... contained not only the latest maps and views of many well-known cities, but included an encyclopedic amount of detail about the known - and unknown - world and undoubtedly must have been one of the most widely read books of its time."

Reference:  Our Research.  Tooley, Map Collectors' Circle: Map Collectors' Series on African Maps, No. 29.  Norwich Map # 2.  Moreland and Bannister.

Very Good Condition overall, with a very old repair on the verso to a separation entering the map from the top.  Fine original color, not often seen in this map.