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Lot 53
[MUENSTER, SEBASTIAN] Tavola dell'isole nuoue, le quali son nominate occidentali, & indiane per diuersi rispetti.
[Basel or Cologne: 1558-1575]. Woodcut map with hand-coloring, here in the 8th state with Italian text to verso, the image 10 x 13 3/8 inches (25.5 x 34 cm); the full sheet 12 x 16 inches (31 x 41 cm); framed. Tiny wormhole near center fold in South America, a second very small puncture in lower margin backed by stub, a few stray marginal spots and light toning to edges, generally a clean example.
Munster's landmark map of the North and South American continents which, with its "inclusion in Munster's Cosmography, first published in 1544, sealed the fate of 'America' as the name for the New World" (Burden). Key points of the map are as follows: the Portuguese flag flies over the South Atlantic and the Spanish over the Caribbean, Japan is shown as Zipangri (the first European map to do so), The Yucatan is shown as an island, and Magellan's ship Victoria (the only survivor of five vessels) is shown in the Mare Pacificum, here named for the first time. The geography of North America is still quite unexplored and of the few place names notable is Terra Florida and C. Britonum, a nod to the early English explorations. Finally, the large sea that divides eastern and western Canada is known as "Verrazano's Sea" as in his 1524 voyage he mistook the Sounds of the Outer Banks of the Carolinas to be the "Oriental Sea" leading to the Spice Islands of the Pacific, thus encouraging much exploration of the area. This is the 8th state of the map, identically published on the same stock in three Italian editions from 1558-1575 and with the title updated from Novae Insulae XVII Nova Tavula to the present title. Burden 12.
C From the Personal Collection of Gary Combs
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