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MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN, Cosmographiae universalis Lib. VI. Basel: Heinrich Petri 1550. Folio, 314 x 209mm. (12 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.), seventeenth-century speckled calf over pasteboard, spine gilt, edges red-sprinkled, very worn with some loss to leather, front flyleaf torn, ex-libris pasted to title-page, obscuring 3 letters and part of woodcut, title and first five maps dampstained and softened, occasional marginal dampstaining elsewhere, map of Europe torn and repaired, gutter of double-page Paris view (g2.3) renewed with some loss to image, double-page Rome view (n1.2) torn along gutter, a few other short mostly marginal tears, a few borders and side-notes shaved, occasional light staining or foxing . FIRST LATIN EDITION, title within woodcut border, woodcut portrait of Münster on verso, 14 double-page maps, including 2 world maps (the first, by David Kandel, showing the New World) and one map of the Americas, 39 double-page town views (including the "panorama" views of Worms, Heidelberg and Vienna, unjoined and bound in separate double sheets), one double-page woodcut of "sea and land monsters", approximately 75 other maps and views in the text, nearly 900 small text woodcuts (some repeated), printer's device on Hhh8v. This edition and the German edition published the same year by Münster's son-in-law Heinrich Petri were the first to contain town views. The "modern" world map, "Typus Orbis Universalis" also first appeared in this edition, replacing the Ptolemaic world map used in previous editions (cf. Shirley 77). Adams M1908 (collation differing slightly); Alden 550/27; Burmeister 86; Sabin 51379; Shirley 92. Provenance : "Brevoye", 17th-century signature on front pastedown, title, first page of preface -- Hornot[?] 1799", inscription on front flyleaf -- Abbey of Notre Dame d'Issoudon, eighteenth-century engraved ex-libris cut out and affixed to title -- Frederick H. Rindge (1857-1905).