Relief shown pictorially. Index numbers throughout map, but no apparent key. Shows topography, waterways, vegetation. Pictorial vignettes of settlements; ship. Extensive descriptive text above map. Gothic script. Appears in Münster's Cosmographia Universalis, German edition, published in Basel between 1544 and 1628, some editions by Heinrich Petri (1544-1550).
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Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552 and Petri, Heinrich, 1508-1579
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