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Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598)
Typus Orbis Terrarum, [Antwerp:] Franz Hogenberg, [1570 or later]. Handcoloured engraved world map, galleon and sea monsters, Latin text on verso (some light mainly marginal staining, heavier localised stained at head of centrefold), 335 x 494mm. Shirley 122: "Ortelius' world map is a simplified one-sheet reduction of Mercator's large world map which had appeared the year before. Nearly all the legends, textual panels and decorative features have been omitted; between the oval circumference of the map and the outer frame are now clouds, and, below, a quotation from Cicero. For surviving correspondence it is known that Mercator generously encouraged Ortelius to make use of his published corpus of research; he also provided him with co-ordinates of places in America and perhaps elsewhere. South America retains the unusual bulged south-west coast drawn by Mercator. There is also a prudent comment adjacent to New Guinea querying whether this large island is part of the southern continent or not."
Typus Orbis Terrarum, [Antwerp:] Franz Hogenberg, [1570 or later]. Handcoloured engraved world map, galleon and sea monsters, Latin text on verso (some light mainly marginal staining, heavier localised stained at head of centrefold), 335 x 494mm. Shirley 122: "Ortelius' world map is a simplified one-sheet reduction of Mercator's large world map which had appeared the year before. Nearly all the legends, textual panels and decorative features have been omitted; between the oval circumference of the map and the outer frame are now clouds, and, below, a quotation from Cicero. For surviving correspondence it is known that Mercator generously encouraged Ortelius to make use of his published corpus of research; he also provided him with co-ordinates of places in America and perhaps elsewhere. South America retains the unusual bulged south-west coast drawn by Mercator. There is also a prudent comment adjacent to New Guinea querying whether this large island is part of the southern continent or not."
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