Tabula Asia IX - Münster 1540 mountainous terrain

mountainous terrain

Venetian maps by Coronelli are considered distinctive and rare

Artistic Merit

Technique: Watercolor or hand-colored lithograph on paper

intersecting thin lines that trace the exact navigational paths of the two French frigates

Tabula Asia IX - Münster 1540 mountainous terrainTabula Asiae IX Drawn Published by: Sebastian Mnster Location: Basle (Basel) Year: 1540 (First issued) From: Geographia Universalis Condition: Original woodcut engraving; black and white as issued, professionally matted A Woodcut Landmark of Early Modern Cartography This exceptional map, titled Tabula Asiae IX, is a historical treasure from Sebastian Mnster's influential 1540 edition of Ptolemy's Geographia. Mnster, a renowned German geographer and