Ortelius (Abraham)
Natoliae quae olim Asia Minor, Nova Descriptio,
£240
Antwerp, Jan Baptiste Vrients, 1608.
a map of the Anatolian peninsula, or Asia Minor, in modern day Turkey. North is oriented to the left, placing the Aegean and the Bosphorus below, with the Black Sea to the left, and the Eastern Mediterranean with Crete, Rhodes and Cyprus to the right, a simple title cartouche in the upper right corner. The map was originally issued on a sheet with two others, of Egypt and Tunis, in Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. This was published in several different language editions, but it only appeared in Italian in posthumous editions published by Jan Baptiste Vrients in 1608 and 1612, with the text based on a manuscript translation by Filippo Pigafetta bought from the heirs of Abraham Ortelius..
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engraved map with original hand-colouring, Italian text on verso with the illuminated initial also in period colour, the map complete in itself but cut from the original sheet of three maps, slight creasing in the wide left margin, [VdB 174a],
| Dimensions | 320230129 cm |
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