Antique map of World by Bünting H.
Die eigentliche und warhafftige gestalt der Erden und des Meers - Bünting H., 1582.
Second world map of Bünting's Itinerarium. America appears in the lower left-hand corner.
Woodcut
Size: 27.5 x 36.5cm (10.7 x 14.2 inches)
Condition: Good.
Condition Rating: B+
References: Shirley (World), 143.
From: Itinerarium Sacrae Scriptura . . . Helmstadt, Jacobus Lucius, 1582.
This is one of ten maps in Bünting's Itinerarium, in which the author, a theological commentator, rewrote the Bible as an illustrated travel book. Other maps in the series bear out his imaginative approach to cartography, which pictures the World in the form of a cloverleaf, Europe as the Queen of the World, and Asia as Pegasus.
Item number: 22643
Price: 1400 Euro
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