[Greece - Turkey]. - Lot 13

[Greece - Turkey]. MÜNSTER, Sébastien. La Nouvelle Grece Selon Toutes Les Regions & provinces d'icelle tant deca que de la Hellespont (Basle, ca. 1550-1599). Sheet (32 x 42 cm). Large xylographed map in black (26 x 34.3 cm), French text on verso (very light marginal wetness, creased at center fold). A good copy of Sebastian Münster's early reprint of Greece and part of Turkey. Sebastian Münster (1488-1552), German cosmographer and scholar, studied mathematics, geography, astronomy and ancient languages before joining the Franciscans and being ordained a priest in 1512. Professor of Hebrew at Heidelberg and later at Basel, he is best known for his Cosmographia (from 1544) and his Geographia Universalis (1540).