![]() 23 Van der Krogt, P.: Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, 5900:31B.2. Van den Broecke, M.: Ortelius Atlas Maps, No. Irlandiae Accurata Descriptio, Auctore Baptista Boazio To view the example which is currently being offered for sale, click the 'View Details' button below. Italian text on verso with a large old coloured initial. The item illustrated and described below is sold, but we have another example in stock. With a large coat of arms cartouches showing the British coat of arms with the St George Cross and the Irish harp. One of the most desirable map of the island for collectors.ĭecorated with six cartouches and exceptionally well-engraved ships and sea monsters. Second state of the rare new plate with dedication to St. Ortelius map, with its combination of English, Irish and Latin, is evidently drawn from variety of charts and plantation maps and the work of the. It comes from an Italian Ortelius atlas of 1608 or 1612. The map is a derivative of the large Baptista Boazio Ireland map engraved by Elstrach and published by Sudbury in 1599 of which only three examples survived. This west-oriented map rarely appears on the market, since it was bound in only a few copies of the Ortelius Atlas, while the publication was done by J. Over thirty editions of this Epitome were published in different languages.Rare and incredible decorative map of Ireland with beautiful old colour. In 1577, engraver Philip Galle and poet-translator Pieter Heyns published the first pocket-sized edition of the Theatrum, the Epitome. The number of map sheets grew from 53 in 1570 to 167 in 1612 in the last edition. Editions were published in Dutch, German, French, Spanish, English, and Italian. Some 24 editions appeared during Ortelius's lifetime and another ten after his death in 1598. Nothing was like it until Mercator's atlas appeared twenty-five years later. Collected by George Carew, Lord President of Munster at the beginning of the 17th century. The importance of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum for geographical knowledge in the last quarter of the sixteenth century is difficult to overemphasize. IE TCD MS 1209/5a, Ortelius Improved: a map of Ireland with the principal families who possessed that kingdom at the beginning of the 17th century. The Parergon can be called a truly original work of Ortelius, who drew the maps based on his research. Later editions included Additamenta (additions), resulting in Ortelius' historical atlas, the Parergon, mostly bound together with the atlas. This first edition contained seventy maps on fifty-three sheets. It was one of the most expensive books ever published. He completed the atlas in 1569, and in May of 1570, the Theatrum was available for sale. In 1568 the production of individual maps for his atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum was already in full swing. In 1565 he published a map of Egypt and a map of the Holy Land, a large map of Asia followed. The inspiration for this map may well have been Gastaldi's large world map. In 1564 he published his first map, a large and ambitious world wall map. In addition, he travelled a lot and visited Italy and France, made contacts everywhere with scholars and editors, and maintained extensive correspondence with them. Luke as an "illuminator of maps." Besides colouring maps, Ortelius was a dealer in antiques, coins, maps, and books, with the book and map trade gradually becoming his primary occupation.īusiness went well because his means permitted him to start an extensive collection of medals, coins, antiques, and a library of many volumes. He learned Latin and studied Greek and mathematics.Ībraham and his sisters Anne and Elizabeth took up map colouring. ![]() The maker of the 'first atlas', the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570), was born on 4 April 1527 into an old Antwerp family. In the interior of the island, the volcano Hekla is in eruption. On verso there is a legend, mentioning the names of these animals. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted.
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