Ortelius' Map of Ancient Spain Binding_original publisher's boards additional engraved title-page with vignette

additional engraved title-page with vignette of Nelson's monument at St Paul's and 11 further plates

text in Latin and German

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Ortelius' Map of Ancient Spain Binding_original publisher's boards additional engraved title-page with vignetteHispaniae veteris typus Our example of this map of Ancient Spain was published by Balthasar Moretus at the Plantin Press, in the final edition of the Parergon. Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is generally considered the first modern atlas of the world, originally published in 1570. Ortelius gathered and selected the best available cartographic knowledge and presented it in a single volume, duly credited and finely engraved in a consistent style,