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ABRAHAM ORTELIUS. [or Oertel] (1527 - 1598) THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM ... Antverpiae, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Ioannem Moretum, 1601.

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157878. ABRAHAM ORTELIUS. [or Oertel] (1527 - 1598) THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM ... Antverpiae, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Ioannem Moretum, 1601.

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Folio (42 by 30 cm). 138 engraved double-page maps, colored by a contemporary hand , + one engraved view, including the Parergon .
(106 engraved maps (of a total of 118); Parergon : Woodcut title-leaf, (4), 12 pp. + 32 engraved maps + one engraved view).

Originally published in 1570, this 1601 Latin edition of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (the Theater or Picture of the World), is almost the same as that of 1595, with the exception of three extra maps with signatures 25 *, 25 ** and 25 ***; theses maps are (136), (137), and (138). Plates engraved by F. Hogenberg, Ferdinand and Ambrosius Arsenius, Jan Wierix (Parergon). Includes: "Parergon, siue, Veteris geograpiae [sic] aliquot tabulae", "Nomenclator Ptolemaicus", "De Mona Druidum insula ... epistola ... Humfredi Lhuyd". Parergon has special engraved title-leaf.

In addition to the contemporary maps, the second sequence of maps (Parergon) includes representations of the Holy Land, the Roman empire, and the lands traveled by Jason, Ulysses, Aeneas, Abraham, Alexander, and St. Paul. Includes one view of the paradise Daphne, a mythological place in Syria.

'The Picture of the World', is the first large modern atlas and a landmark in cartographic publication. The Theatrum was an immediate success and the Plantin press published a long series of editions between 1570 and 1624.

"The rediscovery of Ptolemy's ' Geography ' in 1410, combined with great geographical discoveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, stimulated the drawing of maps and charts of the old and new worlds. While cartographers like Mercator were interested in new techniques of map-making, men like Ortelius, scholar though he was, were primarily publishers, appealing to the ever-increasing public demand for descriptions and maps of know and unknown lands. He developed a wide circle of acquaintances among European cartographers, whose maps he began publishing some years before he collected them into the Theater ."..." THe true measure of Ortelius' achievement, however, was the practical success of his atlas. It cinvincingly demonstrated his belief that no literate person should be without knowledge of geography, and the letterpress which accompanied the maps was designed to appeal not merely to those interested in pure geography. if every home now owns an atlas of some sort, it is due ultimately to the conviction and example of Ortelius "(PMM).

* Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici , III, Ort 33, and Ort 45-6. Dictionary of Scientific Biography , 10, pp. 238-40. Printing and the Mind of Man , 91.

Condition

Nineteenth century mottled calf, upper joint partly cracked. Ex Libris of Carl Juda. A few maps with waterstained and with repairs, mainly to margins.

Theatrum lacks engraved title-page, preliminary matter, and: the World Map (Ort 113), Europe (Ort 110), Asia (Ort 3), America (Ort 114), Peru etc. (Ort 103), and another seven maps.
Maps mounted on stubs at the center fold. On some maps two or more geographical regions are depicted. Legends of most maps credit the author whose work Ortelius adapted.

UPDATE 2014-05-30 12:30 - THREE (not two) maps in the Theatrum and three maps in the Parergon partly defective (initals cut out of the image).
Hibernia (Ireland) No. 14; Pedemontana Region No. 77; Candia, olim Creta nr 89 + Tuscia fiue Etruria nr XX; Crete No. XXIX; Ulyssis Errores No. XXXIIII.

UPDATE 2014-06-05 16:30 Present maps Theatrum: Africa - Mare pacificum fiue del zur - Nova Hispania - Culiacana provincia / Cuba, ettspagniola - Britannicae insulae - Scotia - Anglea - Hibernia - Hispania - Portugallia regnum - Hispalensis conventus, sive andaluziae pars - Valentiae regnum - Gades / Guipuscoa / Carpetania - Gallia - Brittania et Normandia / Cenomani - Pictavia - Andegauensium ducatus - Ager parisiensis vulgo insula franciae - Turonensis ducatus - Territorium blesiense / Lemouices - Caletes et Provoniincisia / Verom. ora maritime / Sabavdia / Venuxinus comitatus - Lotharingia - Burgundiae comitatus - Burgundiae ducatus - Germania - Germania cisrhenana quae vulgo Germania inferior - Lutzenburgum ducatus - Geldria - Leodiensis dioecesis - Brabantia - Hannonia - Artonia - Fislandia - Frisonia Frisia orientalis - Dania / Cimbrica chersonesus - Thietmarsia / Oldenburgum - Westphalia - S axonia - Mansueldiae comitatus - Hassia / Hennenbergensis principatus - Turingia / Misnia - Brandeburgicus marchionatus - Buchavia vel buchonia / Waldeccia comitatus - Brunsvice et luneburgensis ducatus / Nurenbergensis agri descriptio - Franconia / Monasteriensis Salisopia - Moronia - Nortgoia vel bavariae palatinatus / Argentinense territorium - Wirtembergensis ducatus - Sveviae circulus / Bassiliense territorium - Helvetia - Tirolis comitatus / Gorithia, karstia, chaczeola, carniola… .. - Italia - Forumiulii - Vernoae urbis Criomen - Medio - Vrixianus ager - Pedemontana regio - Patavinum territorium / Tarvisinus ager - Tuscia - Florentinum dominium - Perusinus ager - Senae urbis territorium / Marca anconae / Corsica - Aprutium - Regnum neapolitanum - Apulia / Calabria - Sicilia / Sardinia / Malta / Zba / Elba - Ischia insula - Candia olim creta / Archip elagi insulae aliqvot - Cyprus / Stalimene olim lemnos - Graecea - Illyricum - Illyrici altera tabula - Carinthiae ducatus et goritiae palantinatus / Histria / Zara et sebenicum - Hungaria - Hungariae altera tabula - Transsilvania - Polinaenis Osonia - Prinaiais Osonia / Prina ducatus - Romania - Scandia fiue regiones septemtionales - Russia autpotius magni ducis moscoviae imperium - Tarrtaria sive magni chami imperium - China - Iaponie insula - India - Persiae regnum sive sophorum imperium - Turcicum imperium - Terra sancta - Natolia olim asea minor / Aeg - Abissinorum sive presbyteri ioannis imperium - Barbaria et biledulgerid - Fessae & marocchi regna Parergon: Geographia sacra - Palaestina - Ivdaea et israhel - Aevi veteris typus geographicus - Orbis romanus sive romanum imperium - Europa - Britannicae insulaia - Hispania - veterania - caesaris - Belgium - Germania - Pannonia et ill yris - Italia - Italia gallica - Tuscia fiue etruria - Latium - Magna graecea - Sicilia fiue trinacria - Daciae et moatiae - Pontus euxinus - Thracia - Graecia sive hellas - Insular. Aliqvotaegaei maris antiqua descrip - Creta / Sardinia / Corsica… - Africa propria - Aegyptus - Alexandri magni macedonis expeditio - Aeneae navigatio ex virgilio additisetiam - Ulyssis errores - Argonautica - Daphne antiochiae suburbium abhamium patriatio.

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157878. ABRAHAM ORTELIUS. [or Oertel] (1527 - 1598) THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM ... Antverpiae, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Ioannem Moretum, 1601.

Description

Questions? Please call +46 70 766 79 81 for more information regarding this item.

Folio (42 by 30 cm). 138 engraved double-page maps, colored by a contemporary hand , + one engraved view, including the Parergon .
(106 engraved maps (of a total of 118); Parergon : Woodcut title-leaf, (4), 12 pp. + 32 engraved maps + one engraved view).

Originally published in 1570, this 1601 Latin edition of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (the Theater or Picture of the World), is almost the same as that of 1595, with the exception of three extra maps with signatures 25 *, 25 ** and 25 ***; theses maps are (136), (137), and (138). Plates engraved by F. Hogenberg, Ferdinand and Ambrosius Arsenius, Jan Wierix (Parergon). Includes: "Parergon, siue, Veteris geograpiae [sic] aliquot tabulae", "Nomenclator Ptolemaicus", "De Mona Druidum insula ... epistola ... Humfredi Lhuyd". Parergon has special engraved title-leaf.

In addition to the contemporary maps, the second sequence of maps (Parergon) includes representations of the Holy Land, the Roman empire, and the lands traveled by Jason, Ulysses, Aeneas, Abraham, Alexander, and St. Paul. Includes one view of the paradise Daphne, a mythological place in Syria.

'The Picture of the World', is the first large modern atlas and a landmark in cartographic publication. The Theatrum was an immediate success and the Plantin press published a long series of editions between 1570 and 1624.

"The rediscovery of Ptolemy's ' Geography ' in 1410, combined with great geographical discoveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, stimulated the drawing of maps and charts of the old and new worlds. While cartographers like Mercator were interested in new techniques of map-making, men like Ortelius, scholar though he was, were primarily publishers, appealing to the ever-increasing public demand for descriptions and maps of know and unknown lands. He developed a wide circle of acquaintances among European cartographers, whose maps he began publishing some years before he collected them into the Theater ."..." THe true measure of Ortelius' achievement, however, was the practical success of his atlas. It cinvincingly demonstrated his belief that no literate person should be without knowledge of geography, and the letterpress which accompanied the maps was designed to appeal not merely to those interested in pure geography. if every home now owns an atlas of some sort, it is due ultimately to the conviction and example of Ortelius "(PMM).

* Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici , III, Ort 33, and Ort 45-6. Dictionary of Scientific Biography , 10, pp. 238-40. Printing and the Mind of Man , 91.

Condition

Nineteenth century mottled calf, upper joint partly cracked. Ex Libris of Carl Juda. A few maps with waterstained and with repairs, mainly to margins.

Theatrum lacks engraved title-page, preliminary matter, and: the World Map (Ort 113), Europe (Ort 110), Asia (Ort 3), America (Ort 114), Peru etc. (Ort 103), and another seven maps.
Maps mounted on stubs at the center fold. On some maps two or more geographical regions are depicted. Legends of most maps credit the author whose work Ortelius adapted.

UPDATE 2014-05-30 12:30 - THREE (not two) maps in the Theatrum and three maps in the Parergon partly defective (initals cut out of the image).
Hibernia (Ireland) No. 14; Pedemontana Region No. 77; Candia, olim Creta nr 89 + Tuscia fiue Etruria nr XX; Crete No. XXIX; Ulyssis Errores No. XXXIIII.

UPDATE 2014-06-05 16:30 Present maps Theatrum: Africa - Mare pacificum fiue del zur - Nova Hispania - Culiacana provincia / Cuba, ettspagniola - Britannicae insulae - Scotia - Anglea - Hibernia - Hispania - Portugallia regnum - Hispalensis conventus, sive andaluziae pars - Valentiae regnum - Gades / Guipuscoa / Carpetania - Gallia - Brittania et Normandia / Cenomani - Pictavia - Andegauensium ducatus - Ager parisiensis vulgo insula franciae - Turonensis ducatus - Territorium blesiense / Lemouices - Caletes et Provoniincisia / Verom. ora maritime / Sabavdia / Venuxinus comitatus - Lotharingia - Burgundiae comitatus - Burgundiae ducatus - Germania - Germania cisrhenana quae vulgo Germania inferior - Lutzenburgum ducatus - Geldria - Leodiensis dioecesis - Brabantia - Hannonia - Artonia - Fislandia - Frisonia Frisia orientalis - Dania / Cimbrica chersonesus - Thietmarsia / Oldenburgum - Westphalia - S axonia - Mansueldiae comitatus - Hassia / Hennenbergensis principatus - Turingia / Misnia - Brandeburgicus marchionatus - Buchavia vel buchonia / Waldeccia comitatus - Brunsvice et luneburgensis ducatus / Nurenbergensis agri descriptio - Franconia / Monasteriensis Salisopia - Moronia - Nortgoia vel bavariae palatinatus / Argentinense territorium - Wirtembergensis ducatus - Sveviae circulus / Bassiliense territorium - Helvetia - Tirolis comitatus / Gorithia, karstia, chaczeola, carniola… .. - Italia - Forumiulii - Vernoae urbis Criomen - Medio - Vrixianus ager - Pedemontana regio - Patavinum territorium / Tarvisinus ager - Tuscia - Florentinum dominium - Perusinus ager - Senae urbis territorium / Marca anconae / Corsica - Aprutium - Regnum neapolitanum - Apulia / Calabria - Sicilia / Sardinia / Malta / Zba / Elba - Ischia insula - Candia olim creta / Archip elagi insulae aliqvot - Cyprus / Stalimene olim lemnos - Graecea - Illyricum - Illyrici altera tabula - Carinthiae ducatus et goritiae palantinatus / Histria / Zara et sebenicum - Hungaria - Hungariae altera tabula - Transsilvania - Polinaenis Osonia - Prinaiais Osonia / Prina ducatus - Romania - Scandia fiue regiones septemtionales - Russia autpotius magni ducis moscoviae imperium - Tarrtaria sive magni chami imperium - China - Iaponie insula - India - Persiae regnum sive sophorum imperium - Turcicum imperium - Terra sancta - Natolia olim asea minor / Aeg - Abissinorum sive presbyteri ioannis imperium - Barbaria et biledulgerid - Fessae & marocchi regna Parergon: Geographia sacra - Palaestina - Ivdaea et israhel - Aevi veteris typus geographicus - Orbis romanus sive romanum imperium - Europa - Britannicae insulaia - Hispania - veterania - caesaris - Belgium - Germania - Pannonia et ill yris - Italia - Italia gallica - Tuscia fiue etruria - Latium - Magna graecea - Sicilia fiue trinacria - Daciae et moatiae - Pontus euxinus - Thracia - Graecia sive hellas - Insular. Aliqvotaegaei maris antiqua descrip - Creta / Sardinia / Corsica… - Africa propria - Aegyptus - Alexandri magni macedonis expeditio - Aeneae navigatio ex virgilio additisetiam - Ulyssis errores - Argonautica - Daphne antiochiae suburbium abhamium patriatio.

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