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Relief shown pictorially., At head of title: Africam Graeci Libyam app., "Cum priuilegio.", Appears in Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum. 1570., Watermark: 2 crossed arrows., Includes col. ill. of fish, ships, etc., Title on verso: Africa., Pg. no. on verso: 4., From: 1598 French text edition of Or ...
Captions in French on verso: Natolie, ov Petite Asie ; Egypte ; Le port de Carthage, ov Thvnis., Relief shown pictorially., North oriented to left., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.MAP.00933, Print Map, Item-ID: i11402465, BIB-ID: 1172589
[Hrsg.:] [Abraham Ortelius]., Relief shown pictorially, Scale in graph. Form., A decorative boldly engraved map from a Latin text edition of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, renowned as the first world atlas. This map appeared in all editions of the atlas, from 1570-1612. A map rich in place names, obvi ...
Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was a Flemish cartographer and central figure at the pinnacle of Dutch cartographic science during the Age of Discovery. He was famously the first to publish a printed collection of maps with the title of atlas. A very colorful map with a lot of detail and great deal o ...
Old color example of Ortelius' map of the Middle East, from Egypt to modern-day Iraq, prominently featuring the Arabian Peninsula, and extending north of the Mediterranean from Turkey across Greece to Italy. Extracted from map of Asia in 1567 edition of Ortelius previous map, but this map with more ...
Old color example of Ortelius' map of the Middle East, from Egypt to modern-day Iraq, prominently featuring the Arabian Peninsula, and extending north of the Mediterranean from Turkey across Greece to Italy. Extracted from map of Asia in 1567 edition of Ortelius previous map, but this map with more ...
This is Ortelius uncommon first map of the Turkish Empire only used from 1570 until 1579. This is the best known of all the sixteenth-century maps of the Middle East, extending from Greece to Arabia and covering the Cradle of Civilization region. The Red Sea (Mare de Mecca) is shown relatively accur ...