ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527-1598). Typus Orbis Terrarum. Antwerp: 1587 [1592].
Engraved world map, image 360 x 492 mm (433 x 551 mm sheet). Galleon and sea monsters, Latin text on verso. (Short tear along central fold, tiny hole within Africa, repaired on verso, some light darkening.) Matted and framed.
Ortelius's third world map, dated 1587 under the author's signature, with geographical revisions based on Drake's circumnavigation. "The oval world map used previously has been updated in two major respects: South America now assumes the more correct shape anticipated in state 3 of Ortelius second plate and the Solomon Isles are marked for the first time" (Shirley 158).
ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527-1598). Typus Orbis Terrarum. Antwerp: 1587 [1592].
Engraved world map, image 360 x 492 mm (433 x 551 mm sheet). Galleon and sea monsters, Latin text on verso. (Short tear along central fold, tiny hole within Africa, repaired on verso, some light darkening.) Matted and framed.
Ortelius's third world map, dated 1587 under the author's signature, with geographical revisions based on Drake's circumnavigation. "The oval world map used previously has been updated in two major respects: South America now assumes the more correct shape anticipated in state 3 of Ortelius second plate and the Solomon Isles are marked for the first time" (Shirley 158).
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