Contains: Thomae Fazelli,... de rebus [...]. Included index. Has catchword. Initials letters in woodcut. Title page whith xilographic device Pages [166]... Show moreContains: Thomae Fazelli,... de rebus [...]. Included index. Has catchword. Initials letters in woodcut. Title page whith xilographic device Pages [166]-[167] have Chaldean script text with Madenhaya Syriac characters. Main Heritage Shelves General DG866.3 .R47 1579 Book Item-ID: i21477218 BIB-ID: 1888447 Ex-libris stamp on the pastedown: "Dampierre" Bibliothéque des ducs de Luynesm Château de Dampierre. Show less
Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was a Flemish cartographer and central figure at the pinnacle of Dutch cartographic science during the Age of... Show moreAbraham 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 Sea is given the alternative name of Arabian Gulf and the Gulf is given the alternative name of Mar Mesendin, or Sea of Mesendin, now known as Musandam, a governate in Oman. Relief shown pictorially Descriptive text on verso in Latin This is a new plate of the 1570 map, copied word for word. In the Arabian Peninsula the name Ara, a city at the mouth of the Red Sea, has been omitted, while Medina Tallnabi becomes Medina, the word Tallnabi being moved to the left to cover a formerlu nameless town south of Jabul. From "Theatrum orbis terrarum" by Abraham Ortelius (Antwerpen : Plantijn, 1579). This is from the second version of the 1579 printing Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.01187 Print Map Item-ID: i11404589 BIB-ID: 1172801 Show less
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... Show moreThis 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 accurately whereas the Persian Gulf (Mare Elcatif) is misshapen due to the exaggerated Arabian shoreline. The map includes Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece. Based upon Gastaldi's wall map of Asia from 1567. Large and decorative title cartouche, extracted from the 1579 Latin edition of Ortelius famous Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. Relief shown pictorially. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00078 Print Map Item-ID: i11403469 BIB-ID: 1822132 Abraham Ortelius (Antwerp 1527-1598) was a Flemish cartographer and geographer, generally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World) which was published in forty-two editions in seven languages from 1570 to 1612. He is also believed to be the first person to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions. He came to be recognized by his contemporaries as the "Ptolemy of the 16th century". Show less
Text in Latin on verso 2nd edition of the 1579 printing Relief shown pictorially From Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Main Heritage Compact General HC... Show moreText 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 Show less
