Sebastian Munster:  Chletzstat

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Title: Chletzstat

Map Maker: Sebastian Munster

Description:

Striking view of Selestat in the Alsace Region, nearly Colmar, by Sebastian Munster, from the 1540 edition of Munster's Geographia.

Sebastien 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.

Condition Description: Minor soiling

References: Parry, The Cartography of the East Indian Islands, pp.65-68, pl. 3.8

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