Sebastian Munster

Suevia et Bavaria XI Nova Tabula

      First edition, second state of Munster's map of the Upper Danube and part of the Upper Rhine River regions The map extends from the source of the Danube through Ulm, Ingolstad, Regensberg and Passau on the Danube, through the center of the map.   In the East, along the Rhine are Zurich, Basel, Friburg, Argentina (Coln), Mannheim and Metz.  In the north (bottom of the map) is Bamburg and Dachau.  In the south (top) are St. Galen and Saltzburg.  Other lager towns include Nuremberg.  Includes a significant portion of the Bavarian, Austrian and Swiss Alps. Munster is generally regarded as one of the important map makers of the 16th Century.. Munster was a linguist and mathematician, who initially taught Hebrew in Heidelberg. He issued his first mapping of Germany in 1529, after which he issued a call geographical information about Germany to scholars throughout the country. The response was better than hoped for, and included substantial foreign material, which supplied him with up to date, if not necessarily accurate maps for the issuance of his Geographia in 1540. (Basle, 1542) [color: Uncolored, size: 13.5 x 10 inches, condition: VG]