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Buyers may return the item for a full refund provided you notify Jasper52 within 5 days of receiving the item. In the rare event that the item did not conform to the lot description in the sale, Jasper52 specialists are here to help. All items in this sale are guaranteed authentic. Photos, descriptions, and estimates were prepared with the utmost care by a fully certified expert and appraiser. Shipping:Domestic: Flat-rate of $20.00 to anywhere within the contiguous U.S.International: Foreign shipping rates are determined by destination.Location: This item ships from New York This lot starts at $1 and has no reserve as a courtesy so that collectors can determine the true market value on this authentic item. Ortelius was certainly the man for the moment whose interest in history and the classics translated itself into his maps of the ancient world and. Ortelius' work, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, was the first uniformly sized, systematic collection of maps this work can therefore be called the first atlas (although the term was not used until 20 years later by Mercator). (From leading Ortelius scholar Marcel van den Broecke.)Ībraham Ortelius (1527 - 1598) was a Flemish cartographer & geographer, celebrated as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). (Cartouche bottom right corner:) "Cum Priuilegio decennali" (Below cartouche:) "Ab. More background: Regional map of Lorraine, France. This map was drawn by Abraham Ortelius in 1589, based upon a map of America from the same year that was drawn by Frans Hogenberg. It is considered an important advancement in cartography. From the first modern atlas- the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius.Size: 18 x 22 inchesĥ25 copies printed originally. Maris Pacifici, more accurately named the Descriptio Maris Pacifici ('Description of the Pacific Ocean'), was the first dedicated map of the Pacific to be printed. more Title/Content of Map: Lorraine - Lotharingiae Date Printed: 1592Cartographer: Abraham OrteliusMaterial/Medium: No color (save two tiny areas of red strapwork coloring on left margin), strong impression, thick paper. From the first modern atlas- the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius.Size: 18 x 22 inches 525 copies. From 1558 onwards, he is recorded as purchasing multiple copies of maps in order to colour them, but also began building up a large personal collection.
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Title/Content of Map: Lorraine - Lotharingiae Date Printed: 1592Cartographer: Abraham OrteliusMaterial/Medium: No color (save two tiny areas of red strapwork coloring on left margin), strong impression, thick paper. Following the death of their father, Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) and his sisters became map illuminators or colourists and Ortelius also dabbled in buying and selling general antiques.