His connections with Spain - culminating in his 1575 appointment as Royal Cartographer to King Phillip II of Spain - gave him unmatched access to Spanish geographical knowledge during a crucial period of the Age of Discovery. Along with Gerard Mercator and Gemma Frisius, he was a founder of the Netherlandish school of cartography. He was the creator of the first modern atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and is a seminal figure in the history of cartography. This 1602 Spanish edition is catalogued in a single example, held in the Biblioteca Nacional de Espana.Ībraham Ortelius (ApJune 28, 1598) also known as Ortels, was a cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer of Brabant, active in Antwerp. In its many editions, this map and the Theatrum are well represented in institutional collections. Both Betz and van der Krogt note six state changes over the course of its print history: this example corresponds to the fifth state, characterized by the evidence of a plate crack in the map's cartouche the verso text identifies this example as having been printed for the 1602 Spanish language edition of the Theatrum. The map remained in the Atlas for its entire run. Publication History and CensusThis engraving was first printed in 1570 as one of the first maps to be included in Ortelius' seminal Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Points further south rely, ultimately, on Ptolemaic sources - most notably, the delineation of the upper Nile with its sources in two massive lakes fed from the legendary Mountains of the Moon. The map shows the results of Portuguese exploration along the coast, while much of the detail of Northern Africa was drawn from the early 16th century work of the Berber geographer/diplomat Leo Africanus (1594 -1554). 1500 - 1566) and Paolo Forlani (fl.1560 - 1571) and represented a massive improvement on the Sebastian Münster (1488 - 1552) Africa, which until 1570 represented the best depiction of Africa published north of the Alps. SourcesOrtelius' map improved, and drew upon the Italian copperplate maps of Giocomo Gastaldi (c. it made a great impact upon its contemporaries and remained the standard map of Africa for the rest of the century. a handsome, well balanced map, visually beautiful and finely engraved. It remains a most desirable map: Tooley rhapsodized: …one of the cornerstones of any African map collection. In its first issue this was the first map of Africa to appear in an atlas, and it remained the best and most widespread general map of Africa for the remainder of the 16th century and into the 17th. This is a beautiful example of Ortelius' 1570 map of Africa, here in its 1602 Spanish edition. Minnesota - North Dakota - South Dakota.Massachusetts - Connecticut - Rhode Island.
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