De la Gaule et de la situation d'icelle...

Map taken from the famous La Cosmographie Universelle de tout le Monde, French translation of Sebastian Muenster's Cosmographia. The map of Sardinia and Corsica are derived from the map of Abraham Ortelius published in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.

Unlike Muenster, this work is published in only one edition, and is therefore very rare. The maps included are different, and derive from Ortelius, Braun & Hogenberg in addition to the Muenster. Some of the woodblock are instead taken using the plates first published in 1552 in the Cosmographia of Lyon by Guèroult & Balthazar Arnoullet (1517-1556), in the Premier livre des figures set pourtraitz des villes plus illustre set renommées d'Europe, containing 9 urban images, mostly copied from the Cosmographia of Sebastian Muenster.

Woodcut, in good condition. Rare.