MUENSTER, SEBASTIAN. La Cosmographie Universelle de tout le Monde. Second volume du premier Tome...que recerché Francoys de Belle-Forest. Paris: Nicolas Chesneau, 1575. Wood-engraved folding plan of Paris. Small folio, extracted and rebound in vellum over boards, g.e., boards slightly bowed; a few leaves browned. Contains title page (as above, paginated 393/394 on verso), folding plan (measures 437 x 567 mm), and pp. 175-296.

细节

MUENSTER, SEBASTIAN. La Cosmographie Universelle de tout le Monde. Second volume du premier Tome...que recerché Francoys de Belle-Forest. Paris: Nicolas Chesneau, 1575. Wood-engraved folding plan of Paris. Small folio, extracted and rebound in vellum over boards, g.e., boards slightly bowed; a few leaves browned. Contains title page (as above, paginated 393/394 on verso), folding plan (measures 437 x 567 mm), and pp. 175-296.

来源

Bibliotheque de Paul Lacombe, bookplate, see his sale Deuxième Partie, première vente (Paris: Leclerc and Bosse, 1922), lot 875 ("très rare. -- Excellent état.").

拍品专文

All of the second volume of the first book of Muenster's Cosmographie was augmented by Belleforest in Paris. It was decorated in three large engraved wood plates: a plan called de la Ville, Cité, Université et Faux-bourgs de Paris, a perspective view of the city of Saint-Denis, a double page and an interior view, also on double page, of the grand'Eglise Saint-Denis.