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Author:  Sebastian Münster (*1488 - †1552) 

was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and a Christian Hebraist scholar. His work, the Cosmographia from 1544, was the earliest German description of the world.

Map title:   Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio /Basle/ 1590

Description: Munster's second map of America.

By 1588, Munster first map of America (first issued in 1540) had become dated. It was decided to update the 1540 map of America with a a new map based upon the second edition of Ortelius' seminal map of the America. In doing so, the map the large bulge in South America, even though Ortelius had dropped the bulge by 1587. The map includes a wonderful early treatment of the West Coast of North America, includng Quivira and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Many interesting place names in the East Coast.