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

BUENTING, HEINRICH.

Magdeburg, 1581 (or later)

THE FAMED CLOVER-LEAF MAP OF THE WORLD. A FINE HAND-COLORED EXAMPLE. The German theologian Heinrich Bünting (1545-1606) is famed 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 separated shape at the bottom-left corner of the map, with the caption “The New World,” newly discovered as is was, when the map was first conceived.