Print, book-illustration, map (BM 1865,0114.1029)

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Print, book-illustration, map (BM 1865,0114.1029)

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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

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1545
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British Museum
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