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Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Ortelius was a wealthy businessman and paid for the publication of his Theatrum out of his own pocket, but he was not a printer and had to employ others to print it for him. Abraham Ortelius by Peter Paul Rubens , Museum Plantin-Moretus via Wikimedia Commons A man who printed, not the first 1570 editions, but the important expanded 1579 Latin edition, with its bibliography ( Catalogus Auctorum), index ( Index Tabularum), the maps with text on the back, followed by a register of place names in ancient times ( Nomenclator), and who also played a major role in marketing the book, was Ortelius’ friend and colleague the Antwerp publisher, printer and bookseller Christophe Plantin (c. 1520–1589). ....