MUNSTER Sebastian - Map of Switserland

Helvetia Prima Rheni et V. Nova Tabula.

      Double-page wood-engraved map of Switserland , 320 x 400 mm, from Sebastian Munster's Geographia Universalis Vetus et Nova, published in Basel in 1542. On verso of this map is printed the textleaf ''33'' which starts as follows : '' Helvetiae Nova Descriptio. Rhetiam & Helvetia tibi offert...''. On the map side the clover is pointing to the right. Map in good condition allthough some worm-galleries have been expertly repaired in the lower end of the fold, mainly outside the map image resulting for the image in a loss of approx. 1 cm² in the mountains east of Chur (the map is orientated with West up).§.