Marginalia in cARTography.pdf Oct. 2014 | Page 55

PLATE 11. The eighth map of Asia in Sebastian Münster’s edition of Ptolemy’s Geography (Basel: Henricum Petrum, 1542; 1st ed. 1540) shows monstrous races relegated to the margin, and a scene of cannibalism appears in India. Image courtesy of The American Geographical Society Library (G87 .P85x 1542). 51