Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster)

The Cosmographia ("Cosmography") from 1544 by Sebastian Münster (1488–1552) is the earliest German-language description of the world.

[1] It had numerous editions in different languages including Latin, French (translated by François de Belleforest), Italian and Czech.

The last German edition was published in 1628, long after Munster's death.

This success was due to the notable woodcuts (some by Hans Holbein the Younger, Urs Graf, Hans Rudolph Manuel Deutsch, and David Kandel).

[3] His earlier geographic works were Germania descriptio (1530) and Mappa Europae (1536).