Münster’s Map of Scandinavia Engraver(s)_Joseph àMontalegre 32 x 49 cm

32 x 49 cm

British Map engravers) suggests that he may have come form the north of England

sheet size 51 x 36 cm

This map of Africa was drawn and engraved by Edward Weller

but the series was superseded by the British volume of the Atlas Novus in the 1640s

Münster’s Map of Scandinavia Engraver(s)_Joseph àMontalegre 32 x 49 cmThis map of Scandinavia is from Sebastian Mnster's Cosmographia. A compendium of topographical information, folklore and travels, it was first published with a modest 26 maps in 1544, mostly borrowed from his Ptolemy of 1540. A substantial enlargement took place in 1550, and after Mnster's death in 1552 his step son, Heinrich Petri (and his son, Sebastian), continued to revise and augment the work. A major revision took place in 1588, replacing some