Print, book-illustration, map (BM 1865,0114.1029)
Summary
Text-border with Tritons flanking a vase at top; horizontal border below with putti playing, printed from two blocks; on verso a map of the New World (by Holbein?); illustrations to a Latin edition of Münster's 'Cosmographia'Ptolemy, 'Geographia universalis', Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1545.
Woodcut and letterpress
Date
1545
Source
British Museum
Copyright info
Public Domain