Original Antique Bird's-Eye View of Colmar, Alsace, France, 1552
€ 660
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1552
Sheet size
31.5 × 38.5 cm (12.4 × 15.2 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-12834-2
Condition
General age-related toning. Original folding line. Minor wear/creasing, French text on verso. Please review the images for further condition details.
About this sheet
Antique map titled 'La Paincture de la cité de Colmar & du pais circonuoisin'.
Original antique bird's-eye view of Colmar, Alsace, France. This map originates from 'La Cosmographie Universelle' by S. Münster. Published 1552.
Artists and Engravers: Sebastian Münster (1488-1552) was a cosmographer and professor of Hebrew who taught at Tübingen, Heidelberg, and Basel. He settled in the latter in 1529 and died there, of plague, in 1552. Münster made himself the center of a large network of scholars from whom he obtained geographic descriptions, maps, and directions.
