MUENSTER, SEBASTIAN

Wood-engraved map of Africa, from Muenster's Cosmographiae Universale, 5 x 6 1/2 inches, wide margins; hand-colored; framed. Basel, 1572 From the Third Edition of the Cosmographiae. The book is credited with being the first to describe a black African. Library Company, Negro History 1; Sabin 51379.