François de Belleforest     

Copper engraving, 185 x 422 mm, French text, map contains Latin

In 1575, Michel Sonnius and Nicolas Chesneau published Sebastian Munster’s Cosmografia  Universalis,  in  French,  in  two  volumes;  François  de  Belleforest edited the edition. Most of the woodcuts of the original were replaced by copper engravings. Its prototype is the significant 1566 map drawn by the Venetian cartographer, Giovanni Francesco Camocio, who copied the rare map of Matheo Pagano completed in 1538.