EUROPE DEPICTED AS A QUEEN. MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN. Europe as a Queen, no place, no date (Basel, Henricpetrina, about 1580). Woodcut map (p. xli, verso xlii), depicting Europe as a queen, map size about 255x160 mm. German text on verso. During the late 16th century, a few map makers created these map images, wherein countries and continents were given human or animal forms. This map of Europe by Münster is among the earliest examples, it appeared for the first time in his Cosmography 1545, but continuously expanded thereafter until the 1620s. Photo.
EUROPE DEPICTED AS A QUEEN. MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN. Europe as a Queen, no place, no date (Basel, Henricpetrina, about 1580). Woodcut map (p. xli, verso xlii), depicting Europe as a queen, map size about 255x160 mm. German text on verso. During the late 16th century, a few map makers created these map images, wherein countries and continents were given human or animal forms. This map of Europe by Münster is among the earliest examples, it appeared for the first time in his Cosmography 1545, but continuously expanded thereafter until the 1620s. Photo.
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