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. This map depicts the entire continent of Asia. The Red Se ...
Text in Latin on verso, 2nd edition of the 1579 printing, Relief shown pictorially, From Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Main Heritage Compact General, HC.MAP.00720, Print Map, Item-ID: i2450693x, BIB-ID: 2622264
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 ...
