A 16th century woodcut map of India

HONTER, Johannes.

[Nova india, ut nostro tempore est explrata & cognita.]
Basle, 1572, Latin text edition. Woodcut map, printed area 120 x 155mm, set in a page of text.

Paper lightly toned.

A woodcut map of southern India and Sri Lanka, featuring a sea-monster to the bottom right, originally published in Honter's 'De Cosmographiae Rudimentis', but this example issued in Sebastian Munster's 'Cosmographia'..


Stock ID : 23061