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Munster 1544

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Rhinoceros from the first edition of Sebastian Münster’s (1488-1552) Cosmographey oder Beschreibung aller Länder, first published in 1544, which was used before the David Kandel woodcut. The print is referenced in Bartsch 136; Meder 273; Hollstein273; Strauss 176 and Schoch/Mende/Scherbaum 241. Münster’s book was the first to use Dürer’s rhinoceros as illustration.

Munster, S. 1544. Cosmographia: Beschreibung aller Lender, in welcher begriffen aller Völcker Herrschafften, Stetten, und namhafftifer Flecken härkommen, Sitten, Gebreüch; alles mit Figuren und schönen Landttafeln erklärt. Basel, Henrichum Petri.

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