BG-00067

Antique Map of Brabant and part of Belgium by Munster (c.1580)

  • Condition: Good, general age-related toning. Small crease/wrinkle. Frame included, with wear. Please study image carefully.
  • Date: c.1580
  • Overall size: 23 x 19.5 cm.
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.. Antique Map of Brabant and part of Belgium by Munster (c.1580)

Description: Antique map titled 'Braband'. Original woodcut print of the region of Brabant (the Netherlands) and part of Belgium. Charming miniature originating from 'Cosmographia' by S. Munster. 

Artists and Engravers: Sebastian Munster was a German cartographer, cosmographer and Christian scholar. He is best known for Cosmographia, the earliest German description of the world (in 6 parts. He was also the author of Horologiographia, Organum Uranicum and Rudimenta Mathematica. The woodcuts in this publication were made by a group of artists, among which Hans Holbein, Conrad Schnitt, David Kandel and Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch.