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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Cosmographia, 1564




This 1564 edition of Sebastian Munster's Cosmographia is the 9th to be printed in German. The work itself was the first German book about the general world published, and is considered a seminal work on geography. It was also one of the most popular books of the 16th century and was published in dozens of editions.

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