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SEBASTIAN MÜNSTER (1489-1552) Africa XXV nova tabula . [Basel: S. Munster, 1545]. Double-page woodcut map, with '53' at bottom of text on verso, 310 x 372mm. First published in 1540, this was the first widely disseminated map to show the entire continent. The same woodcut was used in all editions of the Geographia and Cosmographia . Variant 5. Betz 3; Norwich 2; Tooley p. 85. S. MÜNSTER Africa/Libya/Morland mit allen künigreichen so zü unsern darin gefunden werden . [Basel: S. Münster, 1550]. Double-page woodcut map, with 'xiii' at bottom of text on verso (some neat marginal restoration), 307 x 396mm. Variant 7 in German text editions of the Cosmographia . Betz 3; Norwich 2; Tooley p. 85. (2)