Lot #: 84457
Taprobana [Ceylon/Sri Lanka]. |
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Description
Ptolemy's mythical island of Taprobana originally became associated with Sri Lanka. Later, as this theory was discredited, Sumatra became the next candidate.
Almost a decade after the death of Sebastian Münster, his publisher and stepson Henri Petri produced a new collection of twenty-four woodcuts. These were intended to accompany his own new four book edition of 'Rudimenta cosmographica' by Johann Honter, a Transylvanian theologian who died in 1549.
Half of them are small double page maps but on the reverse of their rectos are twelve new single-page ones of islands, only 76/80 x 121/125 mm. These scarce woodcuts are much more detailed than previous examples, with their titles across the face of the map and heavy wide borders including latitude and longitude.
Almost a decade after the death of Sebastian Münster, his publisher and stepson Henri Petri produced a new collection of twenty-four woodcuts. These were intended to accompany his own new four book edition of 'Rudimenta cosmographica' by Johann Honter, a Transylvanian theologian who died in 1549.
Half of them are small double page maps but on the reverse of their rectos are twelve new single-page ones of islands, only 76/80 x 121/125 mm. These scarce woodcuts are much more detailed than previous examples, with their titles across the face of the map and heavy wide borders including latitude and longitude.
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