Martin Behaim, his life and his globe / by E.G. Ravenstein ; with a facsimile of the globe printed in colours, eleven maps and seventeen illustrations.
A scholarly biography and cartographic study of Martin Behaim and his 1492 globe, written by geographer Ernst Georg Ravenstein and published by G. Philip & Son in London in 1908 for historians of exploration. The plates are redrawn world maps and gores in pale tinted lithography with dense hand-lettered place names, plus line facsimiles of early circular mappae mundi, useful for coastline outlines, graticules and map typography.
