Aevi Veteris, Typus Geographicus.

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Original copper engraving, published 1612 in the famous historical atlas "Parergon" (Latin text-edition) by Abraham Ortelius.  Finely hand colored in wash and outline. The map shows a renaissance title cartouche in the upper centre and a cartouche with the ,privilegium' and date ,1590' in the lower centre. The corners are ornated and show miniature maps of the four continents Europe, Asia, America and Africa. The map was published for the first time in 1590 in the edition of the ,Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' and was published until 1624 in the atlas ,Parergon' by A. Ortelius. Cartographical sources: made by Ortelius on the basis of ancient knowledge. Seventeen classical authors and their works are specifically mentioned. Later discoveries prior to Columbus, viz in the South and East Asia by the Portuguese, and in the North by Richard Hakluyt also referred to. (Broe. 186)

Broe. 186