Cosmographiae uniuersalis lib. VI
Subtitle: in quibus, iuxta certioris fidei scriptorum traditionem describuntur : omniu[m] habitabilis orbis partiu[m] situs, propriae[que] dotes, regionum topographicae effigies ... item omnium gentium mores, leges, religio ... atque memorabilium in hunc usque annum 1554 gestarum rerum historia
By: autore Sebast. Munstero
Contributors: Manuel, Hans Rudolf, 1525-1571
Publisher: Apud Henrichum Petri
Published: 1554
Place of publication: Basileae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 1190
Subjects: Maps; Geography; Early works to 1800
Notes: Translation of: Cosmographia. Beschreibung aller Lender.

Imprint from colophon, which may have been supplied from another copy or ed.

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Woodcut t.p. border, compartmentalized, showing secular and Christian spiritual rulers of the "known" world, four Asian rulers and the world of the latest discoveries. On t.p. verso, port. of Sebastian Münster. Title border and ill. by Hans Rudolf Manuel and other artists. Cf. Hollstein VI, p. 205-206.

Errors in pagination. Some plates counted in numbering, others omitted.

The 14 plates of maps are printed on double leaves.

Three folding views: the first found between pages 480 and 481 is unnumbered; the second and third between pages 614 and 619, and 680 and 685 are numbered 615-618, and 681-684 and are signed Mm2-4 and Tt3-5.

Includes index.

This Latin ed. differs considerably from the German eds. of 1553 and 1564. The description of America, p. 1099-1113, is quite different, more ample, and embraces the voyages of Vespuccius, Magallanes, etc. The woodcuts of this part also vary. The maps are the same--Cf. Müller. Cat. of books, etc., on America ... 1872.