The celebrated, figuratively executed “Clover Leaf Map.” Double-page woodcut map.

AUCTION 64 | Thursday, March 19th, 2015 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects, Maps and Graphic Art

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Lot 256
BUENTING, HEINRICH.

The celebrated, figuratively executed “Clover Leaf Map.” Double-page woodcut map.

12 x 14.875 inches.

Magdeburg, first edition 1581, (or later):

Est: $5,000 - $7,000
<<THE FAMED CLOVER-LEAF MAP OF THE WORLD.>> The German theologian Heinrich Bünting (1545-1606) is renowned for his Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, first published in 1581 and from where this map is extracted. This celebrated figurative illustration depicts the world as three continents - Europe, Asia and Africa - on a clover-leaf projection with Jerusalem at the center. The continent of America is represented as a separate shape at the bottom-left corner of the map, with the caption “The New World,” newly discovered, when the map was first conceived.