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German, 1489 - 1552
NOVA GRAECIA SECUNDUM OMNES EIUS REGIONES & PROVINCIAS CITRA & ULTRA HELLESPONDUM
woodcut
Basle, c.1550
26 x 34 cm (not including margins)
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NOTES
An early woodcut map of Greece with the western part of Turkey. From an edition of "Cosmographiae Universalis" by Sebastian Munster. “Cosmographia” by Munster was first published in 1544. It had numerous editions in different languages. The last German edition was published in 1628.
Provenance
private collection, Cyprus
Literature
Zacharakis, 2438
