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MÜNSTER, Sebastian (1489-1552). Typus Orbis Universalis. Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1550.
MÜNSTER, Sebastian (1489-1552). Typus Orbis Universalis. Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1550. Woodcut world map, oval projection, fully hand-colored, image 265 x 379 mm (324 x 411 mm sheet). Within woodcut border incorporating 12 windheads. Verso with Latin title and text. (Minor marginal staining.) Second issue of the map with David Kandel's initials "DK" in the lower left corner. From the first Latin edition of Münster's Cosmographia . This Latin edition and the German edition, both published in the same year by Münster's son-in-law Heinrich Petri, were the first to contain the map of the modern world, "Typus Orbis Universalis," replacing the Ptolemaic world map used in previous editions (see Shirley 77). This is the first map to name the Pacific Ocean "Mare pacificum." "This second world map of Münster was used for a large number of editions of the Cosmographia up to and including the 1578 edition" (Shirley). All of North America is called Terra Florida. The west coast of America is depicted on the right side of the map. Shirley 92.