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

AUCTION 72 | Thursday, March 16th, 2017 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps & Fine Art

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Lot 271
BUENTING, HEINRICH.

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

12.25 x 15.125 inches.

Magdeburg, first edition 1581, (or later):

Est: $4,000 - $6,000
PRICE REALIZED $4,200
<<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.