Münster’s Map of Riga Date of Publication_1860 from Liverpool to Quebec

from Liverpool to Quebec

Signed limited edition screenprint

James Agee

sheet size 30

but of particular interest is the schematic map

Münster’s Map of Riga Date of Publication_1860 from Liverpool to QuebecThis view of the Latvian capital Riga is fromfrom Sebastian Mnster's Cosmographia. A compendium of topographical information, folklore and travels, it was first published with a modest 26 maps in 1544, mostly borrowed from his Ptolemy of 1540. A substantial enlargement took place in 1550, and after Mnster's death in 1552 his step son, Heinrich Petri (and his son, Sebastian), continued to revise and augment the work. A major revision took place in