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Graecia sophiani [cartographic material] /
No full textMap of Greece and Turkey with relief shown pictorially.; Text on verso: Græcia sive Hellas [p.] 13.; From: Additamentum theatri orbis terrarum / Abraham Ortelius. Antverpiae : Abrahamis Ortelius Geographiae Studiosis, [1580].; Shirley, R. Maps in the atlases of the British Library, T.ORT-1o.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm1529
Tartariae sive magni chami regni tÿpus.
No full text16th centuryCopper engraving handcolored with watercolor.
Relief shown pictorially.
Printed in cartouche in upper right corner:
"Tartariae Sive Magni Chami Regni typus."
Printed in North America:
"L'Americle Vel Novi Orbis Pars."
Printed in cartouche in lower left corner:
"Continet hec tabula oem Tartariam, cum reliqua Asie, Orientalioris vsq, Oceanu Evum parte, Magno chamo obediente. Cuius imperium Obij fl: Kataia lacu; Volga fl; Mari Caspio, Chesel flu.; UBonte monte, Thebet regione, Caromoram fluuio, & Oceano terminator."
Printed beneath cartouche in lower right corner:
"Cum Privilegio."
Printed next to cartouche in ocean:
"Oceanus Scythicus dulcis est Plinio auctore, qui multas in eo insulas ese dicit, vt etiam M. Paul Venetus: sed neuter neg situm neg, numeru tradit."
Printed beneath Japan or "Iapan":
"Japan insula, "a M. Paulo Veneto Zipangri dicta, olim Chryse, a Magno Cham olim bello petita sed frustra."
Printed in Tartaria beneath illustration of a man in a tent:
"Magnus Cham (quod lingua Tartarorum Imperatorem Sonat) max imus Asie princeps."
Latin description of Tartaria printed on verso with map number "92":
"Qui Tartaros describere velit, multas riationes describat necesse est…"
Written in pencil in upper right corner:
"92."
Depicts Russia, especially modern-day Siberia. Also illustrates the western part of North America, Japan, part of eastern Europe, part of northern China, northern India and part of modern-day Middle East. Shows the Bering Strait as the Anian Strait or "Stretto di Anian," Caspian Sea as "Mar de Bachu, olim Mare Caspium et Hyrcanum" and "Mar Maggoire." Descriptions of various regions and towns labeled in Tartaria included for Nepthalitaru, Tabor, Argon, Arsareth, Tangut and Turchestan. Of note, California is correctly shown as a peninsula and the "Mar Vermeio" is shown next to it on North America's west coast. Shows mountains, rivers and pictorial cities throughout. Includes illustrations of angels and birds surrounding cartouche in lower left, flowers and exotic birds around the title cartouche, ships in the sea and a large fish in the lower right as well as a warrior-leader in the upper left corner in front of a large tent.
Scale c.a. 1:25,000,000.Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was a cartographer and publisher. He set up a business as a book dealer and map painter in Antwerp. He traveled a great deal, making his business successful by developing a large network of contacts around Europe. In 1564 he published a world map in eight sheets, marking the start of a long career in map publishing (Moreland and Bannister, 98). In 1570, Ortelius published the "first modern uniform atlas," the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) (Tooley, 476). Having combined a large collection of maps from various European cartographers, he had them engraved to a standard size (Moreland and Bannister, 98). He also commissioned Frans Hogenberg to create cartouches and illustrations for these maps, following the popular style of the Flemish Renaissance (Klemp, map 15). Multiple editions of this highly successful and influential atlas were published in many languages up to 1612. Of note, Ortelius credited other cartographers. Ortelius's other works include: "Egypt" (1565), "Asia" (1567), "Spain" (1570) and "Roman Empire" (1571) (Tooley, 476).
This map was published as map 92 in the 1584 edition of Ortelius's "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" (Koeman, 50).
Source(s): Koeman, Cornelius, ed. "Alantes Neerlandici: Bibliography of Terrestrial, Maritime, and Celestial Books, Atlases and Pilot Books Published in the Netherlands up to 1880. Volume 3." Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd., 1970.
Moreland, Carl and David Bannister. "Antique Maps: A Collector's Handbook." New York: Longman Group, Ltd., 1983.
Tooley, Ronald Vere. "Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers." Hertfordshire: Map Collector Publications Limited, 1979
Maris Pacifici (quod vulgo Mar del Zur) cum regionibus circumiacentibus, insulisque in eodem passim sparsis, novissima descriptio [cartographic material]
No full textMap of the Pacific Ocean showing part of south-east Asia, America, New Guinea and Terra Australis.; Plate 6 from: Theatro del mondo / de Abrahamo Ortelio. In Anversa : Appresso Giovanni Bapta. Vrintio, 1608.; Text on verso: Il Mare Pacifico overa del Sur.; Cartouche at bottom left of map: Genio et ingenio nobili dn. Nicolao Roccoxio, Patricio Antverpiensi, eiusdemque urbis Senatori / Abrahamus Ortelius, Regiae Mts. geographus lub. merito dedicabit, 1589.; Van der Krogt, 31:651.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm164-2
Americae sive novi orbis nova descriptio / [cartographic material] /
No full textFrom: Theatre de l'univers contenant les cartes de tout le monde, avec une brieve declaration d'icelles /par Abraham Ortelius. MDLXXXVII.; Latin text on verso.; Map shows Americas, Pacific Ocean and Australia. Relief shown pictorially.; Reference: Atlantes Neerlandici / Ir. C. Koeman. Amsterdam : Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd, 1969. vol. III. Ort. 22.; Signature: 5.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm2099
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio
No full text16th centuryCopper engraving handcolored with watercolor.
Full color.
Relief shown pictorially.
Printed in lower left corner in cartouche:
"Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio."
Written in pencil along top on verso:
"America - Ortelius 1579."
Printed on verso: “Novus Orbis.” First line of text on verso: “Totum hoc hemisphaerium…”
Printed in bottom right corner on verso: “2.”
Many distinct geographic features characterize this map. The Pacific Ocean, for example, appears "very narrow" and New Guinea is shown as "due south of California." ("Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio"). The eastern coasts of the Americas are shown with "amazing accuracy: the coast of Brazil is only 3 degrees too far east, the position of Hispaniola is absolutely accurate, and Newfoundland is just 8 degrees too far west." In contrast, the western coasts are distorted. Chile, Peru and California are shown as far too west, thus making both continents "too broad." Moreover, Chile seems to bulge out from South America (Burden, 51-2). Evidence from Cartier's exploration of the St. Lawrence and Spanish exploration in Mexico and the Californian coast appear within this map as well. For example, Coronado's exploration is seen in the naming of Ceuola, Tiguex and Quivira, although Quivira is depicted in the far northwest of North America instead of the Great Plains (Ermen, 11). "Chili" is shown in this map as a city and Santiago, though founded in 1541, is not shown. On the other hand, a key to numbered cities in Peru is shown in Patagonia. The Rio de la Plata is depicted with an "exaggerated width and numerous isles" (Klemp, map 15). Of note, the "mythical kingdom" of "Anian" is shown in the Northwest. Illustrations include a few small ships sailing eastward in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and a whale in the South Atlantic.
Scale: c.a. 1:38,000,000.Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was a cartographer and publisher. He set up a business as a book dealer and map painter in Antwerp. He traveled a great deal, making his business successful by developing a large network of contacts around Europe. In 1564 he published a world map in eight sheets, marking the start of a long career in map publishing (Moreland and Bannister, 98). In 1570, Ortelius published the “first modern uniform atlas,” the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) (Tooley, 476). Having combined a large collection of maps from various European cartographers, he had them engraved to a standard size (Moreland and Bannister, 98). He also commissioned Frans Hogenberg to create cartouches and illustrations for these maps, following the popular style of the Flemish Renaissance (Klemp, map 15). Multiple editions of this highly successful and influential atlas were published in many languages up to 1612. Of note, Ortelius credited other cartographers. Ortelius’s other works include: “Egypt” (1565), “Asia” (1567), “Spain” (1570) and “Roman Empire” (1571) (Tooley, 476).
This map is perhaps the “most famous and easily recognizable” maps of the New World from this period (Burden, 51). In the creation of the map, Ortelius either copied greatly from Mercator’s “Great World Map” of 1569 or used many of the same sources as a number of similarities arise between the two maps. As Ortelius and Mercator were good friends, it may be likely that they shared a lot of information with each other (Burden, 51). Klemp notes that the shape of South America and the “river systems” in both maps appear similar such as the Maragnon River running parallel to the Amazon. The extended shape of the Rio de la Plata is also similar to Mercator’s work and place names in South America are all the same (map 15). Of note, the map displays a “striking contrast between the known, and therefore fairly correctly and minutely drawn areas...and the still unknown” (Ermen, 11). Several versions of this map exist including the first printed in 1570 and two later plates produced, one in 1579 and one in 1587, showing no bulge at Chile. This particular map is printed from the 1579 plate in which ships are shown heading east and the border is significantly thinner than in the 1570 version (Burden, 51-2; Tooley, “Identification…”, 320-4).
Source(s): “Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.” University of Virginia Library. “An Exhibition of Maps and Navigational Instruments, on View in the Tracy W. McGregor Room, Alderman Library, University of Virginia July 10 to September 26, 1995.” 2008.
Burden, Philip D. “The Mapping of North America: A List of Printed Maps 1511-1670.” Rickmansworth, England: Raleigh Publications, 1996.
Ermen, Eduard Van. “The United States in Old Maps and Prints. Wilmington, DE: Atomium Books, Inc., 1990.
Goos, John. “The Mapping of North America: Three Centuries of Map-making 1600-1860.” London: Wellfleet Press, 1990.
Klemp, Egon, ed. “America in Maps: Dating from 1500 to 1856.” New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1976.
Lowery, Woodbury. “The Lowery Collection: A Descriptive List of Maps of the Spanish Possessions within the Present Limits of the United States, 1502-1820.” Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1912.
Moreland, Carl and David Bannister. “Antique Maps: A Collector’s Handbook.” New York: Longman Group, Ltd., 1983.
Portinaro, Pierluigi and Franco Knirsch. "The Cartography of North America 1500-1800." New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1987.
Skelton, R. A. “Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries.” London: Spring Books, 1965.
Tooley, Ronald Vere. “Identification of the Maps of America in the Various Editions of the Theatrum of Ortelius.” In “The Mapping of America.” Ed. by Ronald Vere Tooley. London: Holland Press, 1985. 320-324.
----. “Tooley’s Dictionary of Mapmakers.” Hertfordshire: Map Collector Publications Limited, 1979
Maris Pacifici (quod vulgo Mar del Zur) cum regionibus circumiacentibus, insulisque in eodem passim sparsis, novissima descriptio [cartographic material] /
No full textMap of the Pacific Ocean showing part of south-east Asia, America, New Guinea and Terra Australis.; Plate 6 from: Theatrum orbus terrarum / Abraham Ortelius. 4th ed. Antwerpen : Plantin Press, 1592.; Also appears as Plate 6 [i.e 5] in: Theatrum orbus terrarum / Abraham Ortelius. Antwerpen : Apud Ioannem Bapt. Vrintium, 1609.; Text on verso: Mare Pacificum siue del Zur.; Krogt, 31:041.; Krogt, 31:054.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-nk1528; National Library's copy NK 1528 is annotated in black ink in Spanish in the bottom right corner of the sheet
Turcici imperii descriptio [cartographic material] /
No full textMap of the Middle East with relief shown pictorially.; Plate [122] from: Theatrum orbus terrarum / Abraham Ortelius. Antverpiae: Apud Ioannem Bapt. Vrintium, 1609.; Descriptive text on verso has illustrated capitals.; Koeman, Ort 39.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn3356723
Carpetaniae partis descr. 1584; Vardusorum, sive Gvipvscoae regionis typvs; Sinus Gaditanus, nunc Baia de Cadiz / hanc insulam perlustrabat, et sua manu depingebat Georgius Hoefnaglius Antverpian. Belga
No full text3 mapes en 1 full. Publicat dins: Theatrum orbis terrarum. ghedruckt voor Abraham Ortelius, 1598. a) 17x24 cm, 1:250 000; b) 17x23 cm, 1:300 000; c) 23x47 cm, 1:100 000. - Text: neerl. P.18.48 x 60 c
Italiae Novissima
No full text16th centuryCopper engraving handcolored with watercolor.
Relief shown pictorially.
Printed in cartouche in upper right corner:
"Italiae Novissima Descriptio Avctore Iacobo Castaldo Pedemontano."
Written in pencil beneath bottom edge in lower right corner:
"Ortelius [illegible] 1590."
Printed on verso is a description of "Italiae" in Latin:
"Italia Provinciarum orbis primaria…."
Printed in upper right corner on verso:
"55."
Printed in lower right corner on verso:
"58."
Shows pictorial cities and major mountain ranges throughout Italy including the Tyrol Mountains and the Alps. Also includes Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily as well as parts of Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia Lichaiapra, Dalmatia and Albania. Labels the following in Latin: the Adriatic Sea, the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Ligurian Sea as the northwest part of the Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Venice in the northern part of the Adriatic Sea. Includes a scale in lower right corner labeled "milllaria italica" with a mythological creature above it who has the body parts of a woman, a bird, a fish and a lion. Displays a vignette of Neptune and a female mermaid companion in the Mediterranean, sea monsters, ships and a decorative cartouche with a face beneath it in the upper right corner.
Scale: c.a. 1:2,800,000.Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was a cartographer and publisher. He set up a business as a book dealer and map painter in Antwerp. He traveled a great deal, making his business successful by developing a large network of contacts around Europe. In 1564 he published a world map in eight sheets, marking the start of a long career in map publishing (Moreland and Bannister, 98). In 1570, Ortelius published the "first modern uniform atlas," the "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" (1570) (Tooley, 476). Having combined a large collection of maps from various European cartographers, he had them engraved to a standard size (Moreland and Bannister, 98). He also commissioned Frans Hogenberg to create cartouches and illustrations for these maps, following the popular style of the Flemish Renaissance (Klemp, map 15). Multiple editions of this highly successful and influential atlas were published in many languages up to 1612. Of note, Ortelius credited other cartographers. Ortelius's other works include: "Egypt" (1565), "Asia" (1567), "Spain" (1570) and "Roman Empire" (1571) (Tooley, 476).
This particular map was published in Ortelius's "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" (Koeman, 118). The map is based on an earlier work by Giacomo Gastaldi (ca. 1500- ca. 1565).
Source(s): Koeman, Cornelius, ed. "Alantes Neerlandici: Bibliography of Terrestrial, Maritime, and Celestial Books, Atlases and Pilot Books Published in the Netherlands up to 1880. Volume 2." Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd., 1970.
Moreland, Carl and David Bannister. "Antique Maps: A Collector's Handbook." New York: Longman Group, Ltd., 1983.
Tooley, Ronald Vere. "Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers." Hertfordshire: Map Collector Publications Limited, 1979
Africae tabula nova [cartographic material].
No full textMap of Africa with relief shown pictorially.; On verso: Africa ...; Plate 4 [i.e. 3] from: Theatrum orbis terrarum / Abraham Ortelius. Antwerpen : Gielis Coppens van Diest, 1570.; Krogt, 31:001.; Rex Nan Kivell Collection Map NK 6075
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