![]() Minor foxing and note in pencil to verso. Slight discolouration, and a few small spots of wrinkling and foxing to map. Small sticker to bottom left-hand corner, and small note in pencil to bottom right-hand corner. Small sections of bottom corners and sides are missing. Later the plates were sold to the Moretus brothers, successors of Christoffel Plantin, and some maps published until 1640.Ĭondition: Good. After Ortelius's death the copper plates passed to his heirs, then in 1601 sold to Jan Baptist Vrients which added new maps and published the atlas until his death in 1612. The atlas was published between 15 in 31 editions, with text in Latin, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and English, the 1570 edition having 70 maps on 53 sheets, and the 1612 edition having 167. He personally drew the maps, which were then engraved by Ambrosius and Ferdinand Arsenius and Frans Hogenberg. This map appears to be the first state.Ībraham Ortelius (1527 –1598) was an Antwerp based cartographer best known for the publication in 1570 of the first modern atlas, the “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum,” covering the contemporary cartographic knowledge. Ortelius made at least three very similar plates the first with five ships and three sea-monsters the second one sea monster only the third with three ships and no sea-monsters. Two large cartouches are the most intricate to be found on Ortelius’ maps. The map presents the coastal area from Beirut to the Nile Delta and the inland areas past the Jordan in the east and the Red Sea in the south and shows the routes of the Exodus and Wandering. Nearly all the legends, textual panels and decorative features have been omitted between the oval circumference of the map and the outer frame are now clouds, and, below, a quotation from Cicero. Map of Palestine from the “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum,” first published by Abraham Ortelius in Antwerp in 1570, after Tilemanno Stella Sigenens. Ortelius' world map is a simplified one-sheet reduction of Mercator's large world map which had appeared the year before.
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