Antique Print-MAUSOLEUM-CILICIA-ALASEHIR-AKHISAR-TURKEY-Munster-1592

Price: € 52,50

Subject: Antique print, titled: 'Von den Landern Asie' - An earthquake in Turkey (either Philadelphia, now Alasehir, or Thiatyra, now Akhisar). Also shows a mausoleum. On the rear an army in Cilicia (an ancient region of Anatolia).

Condition: Good, given age. Ghosting from text on the rear. Lower right margin corner soiled. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Woodcut on hand laid paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 20 x 32.5 cm. The image size is ca. 6.5 x 8.5 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 7.9 x 12.8 inch. The image size is ca. 2.6 x 3.3 inch.

Part Number: 47516

Location: A156-02

Description: Sebastian Munster's 'Cosmographia, Beschreibung aller Lender'. These prints are from the 1592 German edition, published in Basel by Henrichum Petri (Heinrich Petri).

Artists and Engravers: The author of this work is Sebastian Munster, a German cartographer, cosmographer and Christian scholar. He is best known for Cosmographia, the earliest German description of the world (in 6 parts. He was also the author of Horologiographia, Organum Uranicum and Rudimenta Mathematica. The woodcuts in this publication were made by a group of artists, among which Hans Holbein, Conrad Schnitt, David Kandel and Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch.