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Title: Totius Africæ tabula, & descriptio uniuersalis, etiam ultra Ptolemæi limites extensa

Contributors:

Dates

  • Coverage: 1554

Publishers

  • [Basilieae : Henricum Petrum, 1554]

Summary

Relief shown pictorially. Text on verso: Africae nova descriptio, quæ peninsulæ instar undique ferè mari cingitur ... From: Cosmographiae uniuersalis lib. VI ... / autore Sebast. Munstero. Basileae : Apud Henrichum Petrum, 1554. Historic Maps copy varies from edition of 1542, described by Norwich (Norwich 3), which has three place names printed upside down.

Subjects

  • Africa
  • Africa—Maps
  • Maps—Africa—1554
  • Other

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-20.04, 42.63, 37.68, -35.35)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-20.04, 42.63, 37.68, -35.35)

Provider

Princeton

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552. Totius Africæ tabula, & descriptio uniuersalis, etiam ultra Ptolemæi limites extensa. [Basilieae : Henricum Petrum, 1554]. Image data. https://maps.princeton.edu/catalog/princeton-sq87bw441

Format

TIFF

Languages

  • lat