Bidspirit auction | ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM.

ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. - Typus Chorographicus, Celebrium Locorum in Regno Iudae et Israhel. [“Chorography of the Most Important Places in the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel”]. Double-page copperplate map. 15 x 19 inches (38 x 48 cm) to mat. Finely framed. Antwerp, first edition 1590 (or later): Map stretches from Phoenicia to Egypt. Amman (Philadelphia) is mapped as far north as the Sea of Galilee while Petra is placed in the Sinai by El-Arish (Rhinocorura). Although dated 1586, the map was first published in Antwerp in 1590.