
Shop 189 392 Jones Street Ultimo NSW 2007. Dealers in fine original antique maps, prints, paintings & books, since 1979. Our Certificate of Authenticity is included. ortelius-atlas-maps Date: C1996 Author: Marcel P.R. This information is adopted from the Printed World catalogue series, one of the most enjoyable and informative Australian Antique map catalogues available, created and compiled by Simon Dewez. , Abraham Ortelius and the First Atlas : Essays. Description on verso with an old small repair restoring a few words of the text in manuscript not affecting the recto. Wide margins and fine condition.Published in the fourth Additamentum to supplement Ortelius Theatrum Orbis Terrarum from 1590 up until 1624. Rivers were the main feature here, as the old maps make clear to us. NOTABLE BLEMISHES : light abrasion to lower framework of the cartouche and corresponding facing page, and in the centerfold just below the upper border- all without offense. REFERENCE: vdB 130, KOEMAN & MEURER 36, Karrow 1/49, vdKrogtAN: 7200:31A In 1570 he published the first comprehensive collection of maps of all. VERSO: description of Toscana with a colored initial. Abraham Ortelius is the most famous and most collected of all early cartographers. All maps are offered subject to availability.

Almost allofthe antique maps were originally in atlas books but were later. After many enjoyable years dealing from public premises, we now work from an office in Bath and are actively working to wind-down our business activities. A complete Ortelius atlascan fetch 200,000 but could have been purchased.
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PROPERLY FRAMED BETWEEN TWO PANES OF GLASS SO THE BACK MAY BE VIEWED THROUGH A WINDOW.įEATURES: Florence, Pisa, Lucca, Sienna, Rome, Perugia, Viterbo, Elba and Corsica islands and more. The Theatrum was the first uniformly-sized, systematic collection of maps ever produced and hence is generally referred to as the first true atlas although the. Welcome to Jonathan Potters online gallery of antique maps, plans, charts and atlases. In addition to the modern maps of his main atlas, Ortelius himself compiled a series of historical maps known as Parergon Theatri, which appeared from 1579.

FIRST SPANISH EDITION- A VERY SCARCE EXAMPLE OF AN EDITION OF JUST 300. UP FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION- AUTHENTIC ORIGINAL 430 YEAR OLD 1588 ABRAHAM ORTELIUSĪ BEAUTIFUL HAND COLORED ATLAS MAP EXTRACTED FROM HIS ATLAS THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM.
