![]() ![]() Burden 39 and 64 Koeman III, Ort 29 Phillips 374 see PMM 91 (1570 edition) Sabin 57693 Shirley 122 Tooley Maps and Map-Makers p.29. The Atlas includes Ortelius' famous world map: "Typus Orbis Terrarum," followed by his map of the Americas "Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio," (dated 1587, Ortelius’ third plate), maps of Asia, Africa, Europe and numerous regional maps. Antarctica), contains what is "probably the earliest allegorical representation of America" (Koeman). The engraved allegorical title with its five female figures representing the five continents (one a mere bust, symbolizing the mostly unexplored continent of "Magellenica," i.e. His list of contributors, which included not only the authors of the original maps but other cartographers and geographers as well, has been of particular value for historians of cartography. English: Typus Orbis Terrarum, drawn in 1570 by cartographer Abraham Ortelius (1527. This enabled him to compile the "Atlas of the Whole World" from the best available sources. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, World Map, 1570 Stock Photo. Ortelius amassed a large private collection of maps and corresponded with most map-makers and map-sellers in Antwerp and abroad. It was the first uniformly sized, systematic collection of maps of the countries of the world based only on contemporary knowledge and in that sense may be called the first modern atlas" (Tooley). "The publication of of this atlas marked an epoch in the history of cartography. ![]() "It was the Atlas of the Renaissance par excellence, embodying and expressing as it did the spirit of free inquiry that characterized the age"(Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, p.324). The atlas is the first to contain maps printed in a uniform style and format and to display a catalogue of the authors whose source Ortelius used in the drawing of the maps. It was the most authoritative and successful of such works during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and it made Abraham Ortelius one of the most prominent geographers of his time. First published in 1570, the Theatrum orbis terrarum is universally recognized as the first modern atlas. The last and most complete edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum published during Ortelius’s lifetime. SUPERBLY COLORED COPY OF ORTELIUS' ENLARGED THEATRUM, ASSEMBLING 115 UNIFORM MAPS OF THE WORLD AND 32 MAPS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD, INCLUDING THE MOST RENOWNED CARTOGRAPHERS OF THAT PERIOD Provenance: Alderman of the Flemish town of Kermt, date 1670 (ownership inscription on title partly vanished). (Some minor browning and staining mostly to margins and versos of maps, a few corners or short marginal tears repaired, some light staining and ink stain to allegorical title border, small abrasion to image of India map 108.) Contemporary Dutch vellum gilt (rebacked in vellum, some minor staining). Engraved allegorical title, engraved portrait, and 147 hand-colored double-page maps, most by Frans Hogenberg, mounted on guards, woodcut border surround to the “Parergon” title, ALL FINELY COLORED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND. ![]() ģ parts in one volume, comprising modern maps the Parergon and Nomenclator, 2° (470 x 300 mm). The map has been repaired with archival materials on the verso.ġ932 S. note 2 Contents edit The atlas contained virtually no maps from the hand of Ortelius, but 53 bundled maps of other masters, with the source as indicated. Light water staining confined to portions of the left and right margins. The publication of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) is often considered as the official beginning of the Golden Age of Netherlandish cartography (approximately 1570s1670s). One worm hole to the left and right of the centerfold at the bottom of the map. Two lovely frigates also grace the seas.Ĭondition: This hand colored map is in B condition. ![]() The map is embellished in the usual style of Ortelius, with a variety of sea monsters and mythical creatures, including one half-man half-seahorse playing a an early cousin of the violin, and another creature combining aspects of a lion, a buffalo and a sea serpent is depicted with holding its live prey with its paw. Latin text on the verso provides descriptions of the various regions and countries covered by the map. The outline of Scandinavia is impressively accurate, bordering the Mare Congelatum, Latin for the ‘frozen waters of the Arctic’. Engraved by Frans Hogenberg, the map shows the influence of Mercator’s wall map of 1569, as well as other works of the era. This map was influential in its treatment of the Arctic regions. Also included are Greenland, Iceland and North America. Ortelius depicts a large area of the North Atlantic, extending from Scandinavia and the Polar regions in the Arctic Circle and in the East, to the mythical islands of Drogeo, Frisland and Icaria. The map is identified as such by the Latin text on the verso and page number 45. This is an example of the first state from the earliest edition of Typus Orbis Terrarum, published by Abraham Ortelius in 1570. ![]()
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