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870 - [MÜNSTER, Sebastian] India extrema XXIIII nova tabula. c. 1550–1560 Woodcut, 25.6 x 34.2 cm (washed, some light traces of clear stains). Very early printed map of Asia depicting the continent from the Caspian Sea to the Pacific Ocean. It features a large archipelago of 7,448 islands representing Southeast Asia, with Java, Borneo, and the Moluccas already named. First published in 1540 in Münster’s *Geographia* with the Latin title *India extrema XIX nova tabula*; here the number has been changed from XIX to XXIIII, based on a later Latin edition (leaf 52). Featuring a sea monster and a mermaid in the lower part. Ref. Suárez, *Early Mapping of the Pacific*, pp. 49–52.
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[MÜNSTER, Sebastian] India extrema XXIIII nova tabula. c. 1550–1560 Woodcut, 25.6 x 34.2 cm (washed, some light traces of clear stains). Very early printed map of Asia depicting the continent from the Caspian Sea to the Pacific Ocean. It features a large archipelago of 7,448 islands representing Southeast Asia, with Java, Borneo, and the Moluccas already named. First published in 1540 in Münster’s *Geographia* with the Latin title *India extrema XIX nova tabula*; here the number has been changed from XIX to XXIIII, based on a later Latin edition (leaf 52). Featuring a sea monster and a mermaid in the lower part. Ref. Suárez, *Early Mapping of the Pacific*, pp. 49–52.
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