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This is Ortelius 1570 map of Bohemia, in a beautiful, original-color example from the 1587 French edition of
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas. It is derived from the unobtainable, Leipzig-published, 1568 Johann Criginger (1521 - 1571) map, which was to date the best map of Bohemia available. Like the Criginger, Ortelius map is oriented to the north, showing the Kingdom of Bohemia surrounded by pictorially-represented forests and forbidding mountains. Cities and towns are pictorially shown to represent their respective sizes. Ortelius map is embellished with two handsome, strapwork cartouches; the title cartouche is surmounted with the Bohemian coat-of-arms.
Publication History and CensusThe map was produced for inclusion in Ortelius
CuliacanCuba-ortelius-1579 SOLD
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Culiacanae, America Regionis Descriptio./ Hispaniolae, Cubae, Aliarumque Insularum Circumiacentium, Delineatio./ Cum Imp. et Regio./ privilegio decennali 1579.
1579 (dated)
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This is a beautiful, sharp example of Ortelius 1579 map of the Viceroyalty of Culiacan in Northwestern Mexico, and Ortelius map of Cuba and the Caribbean. While Ortelius is generally most esteemed as an editor and compiler of maps, he was an accomplished mapmaker in his own right, and this map is among those of his
Theatrum of his own composition, synthesizing data drawn from Mercator s 1569 world map, Gutierrez s 1562 America map and Alonso de Santa Cruz s 1560
Isolario (sources now unobtainable by the collector). These maps, both of essential areas of recent exploration in the New World, exemplify Ortelius trail-blazing cartographic work.
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One of the most iconic maps of all time, this is Abraham Ortelius s 1589 map of the world,
Typus Orbis Terrarum, here in the first state of the 3rd plate. This map was published in Ortelius
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern published atlas. The map embraces the entirety of the known world and represented the most widely-disseminated and eagerly-copied image of the world available to the European reader at the end of the 16th century. In compiling this map Ortelius drew on the best cartography available, including Gerard Mercator s map of 1569, Giacomo Gastaldi s 1561 World Map, Diego Gutierrez s portolan of the Atlantic, as well as other works by Sebastian Cabot, Jodocus Hondius, Orontius Finaeus, Petrus Plancius, Gemma Frisius, Laurent Fries, and more.
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This is Sebastian Münster s 1550 map of the world, one of the most distinctive produced during the Age of Discovery. In the mid-sixteenth century, it was the best summation of the rapidly expanding known world available to the literate European. The map was included in Münster’s magnum opus,
Cosmographia Universalis, for over forty years was the primary source for anyone who wished knowledge of the world. Consequently, this map would have had a disproportionate impact, providing the first presentation of a circumnavigable world for nearly half a century. It would not be challenged until the 1570 publication of Ortelius