Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598, Theatrum orbis terrarum, XX Maij MDLXX [1570]
- Title(s):
- Theatrum orbis terrarum.
- Additional Title(s):
- Theatrvm orbis terrarvm
- Published/Created:
- Antuerpiae : Auctoris aere & cura impressum absolutumque apud Aegid. Coppenium Diesth, XX Maij MDLXX [1570]
- Physical Description:
- 1 atlas ([284] pages) : maps ; 43 cm (folio)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsFolio A 2023 53Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12454758
- Classification:
- Maps & Atlas (printed)
- Scale:
- Scales differ.
- Notes:
- Relief shown pictorially.
Variant A of the 1570 edition, as described by Koeman: title page verso is blank; catalogus auctorum includes 87 names; colophon is dated XX Maij MDLXX.
Maps are numbered 1-53, mounted on stubs at the inner margin, forming two conjugate leaves each; the recto of the first leaf includes descriptive text and map number; the verso of the second leaf is always blank.
Publisher statement precedes place of publication in colophon.
The title page is engraved.
Imprint from colophon.
List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 3389
Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, Ort 1A
Includes a description of the frontispiece by Adolf van Meetkercke; Ortelius's preface; a list of European cartographers, "Catalogus auctorum tabularum geographicarum;" an index of regions without their own maps, "Quoniam interdum plures regiones aut insulae in his Tabulis desscriptae sunt...; "De mona druidum insula," by Humphrey Llwyd; and another index, "Antiqua regionum, insularum, urbium, montium, promonotoriorum, sylvarum, pontium, marium, sinuum, Lacuum...Auctoribus quibus sic vacntur, adiectis."
BAC Folio A 2023 53: Maps are uncolored. With an unidentified armorial bookplate and the bookplate of Thomas W. Streeter ("Ex Libris T.W.S.") - Subject Terms:
- Geography -- Early works to 1800.Streeter, Thomas W. (Thomas Winthrop), 1883–1965 -- Bookplate.
- Form/Genre:
- Atlases.
World atlases. - Export:
- XML
- Contents (from individual maps): Typus orbis terrarum
- Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio
- Asiae nova descriptio
- Africae tabula nova
- Europae
- Angliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae, sive, Britannicar insularum descriptio
- Regni Hispaniae post omnium editiones locupleissima descriptio
- Portugalliae
- Galliae regni potentiss.
- Regionis Biturigum ; Limaniae topographia
- Caletensium et Bononiensium ; Veromanduorum
- Galliae narbonensis ora marittima ; Sabaudiae, et Burgundiae
- Germania
- Descriptio Germaniae inferioris
- Gelriae, Cliviae, finitimorumque locorum verissima descriptio
- Brabantiae, Germaniae inferioris nobilissimae provinciae descriptio
- Flandria
- Zelandicarum insularum exactissima et nova descriptio
- Hollandiae antiquorum catthorum sedis nova descriptio
- Oostende West Vrieslandts beschryuinghe, utriusque Frisiorum regionis noviss. descriptio
- Daniae regni typus
- Thietmarsiae, Holsaticae regionis partis typus ; Prussiae descriptio
- Saxoniae, Misniae, Thuringiae
- Franciae orientalis (vulgo franckenlant) descriptio
- Monasteriensis et Osnaburgensis episcopatus descriptio
- Regni Bohemiae descriptio
- Silesiae typus
- Austriae ducatus chorographia
- Salisburgensis Iurisdictio
- Tipus Vindeliciae sive Vtriusque Bavariae
- Palatinatus Bavariae descriptio ; Wirtenbergensis ducatus vera descriptio
- Helvetiae descriptio
- Italiae novissima descriptio
- Ducatus Mediolanensis, finitimarumq[ue] regionu[m] descriptio
- Pedemontanae vici norumque regionum
- Larii Lacus Vulgo comensis descriptio ; Territorii Romani descriptio ; Fori Iulii, Vulgo Friu[o]li Typus
- Thusciae descriptio
- Regni Neapolitani verissima secundum antiquorum et recentiorum traditionem descriptio
- Insularum aliquot maris Mediterranei descriptio
- Cyprus insula ; Candia olim Creta
- Graeciae universale secundum hodiernum situm neoterica descriptio
- Schlavoniae, Croatiae, Carniae, Istriae, Bosniae, finitimarumque regionum nova descriptio
- Hungariae descriptio
- Transilvania
- Poloniae finitimarumque locorum descriptio
- Septentrionalium regionum descrip.
- Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae descriptio
- Tartariae sive Magni Chami regni typus
- Indiae orientalis, insularumque adiacientium typus
- Persici sive sophorum regni typus
- Turcici imperii descriptio
- Palestinae sive totius terrae promissionis nova descriptio
- Natoliae, auae olim Asia Minor descriptio ; Aegypti recentior descriptio ; Carthaginis celeberrimi sinus typus
- Barbariae et Biledulgerid nova descriptio.
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