Map of Europe from Munster's Cosmographia

Sebastian Munster, 1540 (c1558):
Tabula Nova Prima Europa.  Excellent. Adequate but not full margins. approx 10 x 13 inches. $1400.

Sebastian Munster was raised as a Franciscan monk, converted to Lutheranism, taught Hebrew at Heidelberg and Basle, and was proficient in Greek and some Asian tongues. He died of the plague in 1552. His Cosmographia was the most popular cosmological/geographical work of the mid-sixteenth century.