ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM
“Typus chorographicus, celebrium locorum in regno Iudae et Israhel.”Double-page ...

ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM
“Typus chorographicus, celebrium locorum in regno Iudae et Israhel.”


Double-page hand-colored copperplate map.
17 x 21.5 inches (43 x 54 cm).
Antwerp, first edition 1590 (or later):
From: Abraham Ortelius. Additamentum IV Theatri orbis terrarum. Antwerp, Officina Plantiniana, 1590. p.19. Decorated with Baroque-style title cartouche upper left and imprint cartouche lower right with mileage-scale. The shoreline runs from the southwestern Rhinocorura to the northeastern Beirut. With Latin text on verso: “Ivdaea et Israhel.” Although dated 1586, the map was first published in 1590.
From: Abraham Ortelius. Additamentum IV Theatri orbis terrarum. Antwerp, Officina Plantiniana, 1590. p.19. Decorated with Baroque-style title cartouche upper left and imprint cartouche lower right with mileage-scale. The shoreline runs from the southwestern Rhinocorura to the northeastern Beirut. With Latin text on verso: “Ivdaea et Israhel.” Although dated 1586, the map was first published in 1590.