Aevi Veteris, Typus Geographicus.

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Original copper engraving, published 1591 in a German text-edition of the Additamentum of Abraham Ortelius atlas ,Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. Finely oldcolored example in wash color. A fine old colored example of the 1591 rare German text edition, which was printed in 75 copies. The map was published 1590 for the first time with Latin text and appeared then in a various editions until 1624 in the atlas ,Parergon' by A. Ortelius. This is the 1st state of this map, with the name ,TAPROBANA' engraved into the island of Sumatra. Later, between 1595 and 1598, TAPROBANA was removed from Sumatra and was added next to Sri Lanka. 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.I; Shirley 176.