Indiae orientalis ... .

1570

University of Otago Library Atlases: Dbl Oversize [Ref] - G1006 O7 1570

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Lausanne : Sequoia.

Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), rightly called the 'Father of Modern Cartography', developed the idea of assembling a compendium of maps to form an atlas. The first edition of his "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" was published in 1570 and it was a great success. This facsimile edition depicts China and Japan, albeit with a rather bulbous island of Honshu, and a much diminished and broken version of Hokkaido, Shikoku and Kyushu. Ortelius prided himself on using the best possible sources for the maps and the textual descriptions; later sixteenth century editions depicted the Great Wall of China.

Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598

Maps

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420 mm

Theatrum orbis terrarum (Lausanne : Sequoia, 1964), fol. 48.

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Theatrum orbis terrarum

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Theatrum orbis terrarum. Antwerp, 1570

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