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

BUENTING, HEINRICH.

Magdeburg, first edition 1581, (or later)

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.