Munster, Sebastien
1580

Antique early map of Greece with Istanbul

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La Description de la Grece qui a este iadiz une des principales & plus renommees nations de Europe, mais auiourdhuy est qua fit tou defense soubz la domination du Turc.

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Antique woodcut map of Greece published ca. 1578 by Sebastien Munster in a French edition of his Cosmographie. At extreme upper right Munster denotes the triple-walled city of Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey) astride the Bosphorus Strait. In addition to Constantinople, small iconized dwellings represent the towns of Edirne ( Adrianople ), Modon, Corinth, and Salonica. Other geographical features include: Mount Olympus, Thrace, Albania, Macedonia, and the Greek Islands of Crete, Corfu, Lemnos, Lesbos, Samos, Melos, and Negroponte.

Woodcut is inset into French text. Verso contains French text and a small woodcut of a 16th century nobleman. Page 1052.

CREATOR: Munster, Sebastien

PUBLICATION DATE: 1580

GEOGRAPHIC AREA: Greece

BODY OF WATER: Aegean Sea

CONDITION: Good.  On chain laid paper with faint uniform age-toning. Water stain at very top, well outside of the map.

COLORING: None

ENGRAVER: Munster

SIZE: 5 " x 5 "

ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 2

PRICE: $

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