Map of Illyria


Basle Sebastian Munster Paper, woodcut 34 x 25.2 cm Map with an unusual orientation towards the south and Munster's typical depiction of relief, waterways and topographic symbols. Bought at the 'Quorum' second-hand bookshop in Zagreb in 1990. An identical map, but in colour, was published in A. Pandzic, Pet stoljeca zemljopisnih karata Hrvatske, Zagreb, 1988, page 30, catalogue number 7.




HPM/PMH-031916