Natoliae, Quae Olim Asia Minor Nova Descriptio - Aegypti Recentior Descriptio. - Carthaginis Celeberrimi Sinus Typus.

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Original copper engraving, published 1598 in a French text edition of the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. The map shows three maps on one double page, each of them with a title cartouche. Asia Minor is shown with the east to the north oriented with Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean. The other small map of Egypt is showing mainly the Nile delta with the neighboring area. The third map shows the surroundings of Tunis (Carthago). Villages and towns are shown as miniature views. Moreover the maps are ornated with ships. Abraham Ortelius received the cartographic sources for those maps by Gastaldi and Forlani, 1564, for Egypt by Forlani 1566 and Carthago after an Italian one sheet source dated 1535 (Broe. 174).

Broe. 174.