| Method | Copper engraved with hand colour |
| Artist | Ortelius, Abraham |
| Published | Cum Privilegio decennali 1594 [c. 1608 printing] |
| Dimensions | 338 x 228 mm |
| Notes |
A map of the German municipalities Henneberg and Hesse. From Abraham Ortelius's Italian edition of 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. With very fine hand colouring. Towns, churches and cathedrals have been included in lovely detail and picked out in red. Title and scale in fine decorative strapwork cartouches. Italian text to verso. Abraham Ortelius (1527 -1598) was a Flemish cartographer, cosmographer, geographer and publisher and a contemporary of Gerard Mercator, with whom he travelled through Italy and France. Although it is Mercator who first used the word "Atlas" as a name for a collection of maps, it is Ortelius who is remembered as the creator of the first modern atlas. 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' was the first systematically collated set of maps by different map makers in a uniform format. Three Latin editions as well as a Dutch, French and German edition of 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' were published by 1572 and a further 25 editions printed before Ortelius' death in 1598. Several more were subsequently printed until around 1612. Ortelius is said to have been the first person to pose the question of the continents once being a single land mass before separating into their current positions. Condition: Time toning and some paper wear but overall in very good condition. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £150.00 |
| Stock ID | 45529 |