Abrege du theatre D'Ortelius : Contenant la description des principales parties & regions du monde, representees en petites cartes, & illustrees de sommaires expositions

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Map 1. Globe celeste -- Map 2. Globe terrestre -- Map 3. Scenographia totius fabricae S. Lavrentii in Escoriali -- Map 4. Typus Orbis Terrarum -- Map 5. Europa -- Map 6. Asia -- Map 7. Africa -- Map 8. America: Sive Novus Orbis -- Map 9. Anglia -- Map 10. Scotia -- Map 11. Hibernia -- Map 12. Terçera = Terçera Insula -- Map 13. Hispania -- Map 14. Portugallia -- Map 15. Andaluzia = Andalusia -- Map 16. Valentia regnum -- Map 17. Baia de Cadiz = Gades -- Map 18. Gallia -- Map 19. Guasconiae descriptio = Gasconia -- Map 20. Poictov = Pictavia -- Map 21. Britannia -- Map 22. Normandia -- Map 23. Aniov = Andegavensis ducatus -- Map 24. Biturigium = Bituriges -- Map 25. Limania -- Map 26. Auriacus Princ = Auriacus Principatus -- Map 27. Savoia = Sabaudia -- Map 28. Languedoc -- Map 29. Bourgoigne comit = Burgundia -- Map 30. Burgundiae ducatus -- Map 31. Lotharingiae typus = Lotharingia -- Map 32. Caletum, et Bononia -- Map 33. Veromandui -- Map 34. Picardia -- Map 35. Lemovicum -- Map 36. Campania -- Map 37. Turonensis ducatus = Turones -- Map 38. Blesiense Territorium = Blesienses -- Map 39. La Mans. Cenomanorum typus = Cenomani -- Map 40. Provincia -- Map 41. Franciae Insula -- Map 42. Delphinatus -- Map 43. Germania -- Map 44. Gallia Belgica -- Map 45. Leodiens. Episcop = Leodiensis Dioecesis -- Map 46. Lutzeburg = Lutzenburgum -- Map 47. Henault = Hannonia -- Map 48. Artois = Artesia -- Map 49. Namur. Namen = Namurcum -- Map 50. Brabantia
Map 51. Flandria -- Map 52. Geldria -- Map 53. Zelandia -- Map 54. Hollandia -- Map 55. Frisia -- Map 56. Westfalia = Westphalia -- Map 57. Thietmarsia, Holsatiae region. pars -- Map 58. Daniae typus = Dania -- Map 59. Saxonia, Thuringia, Misnia -- Map 60. Brandeburgens. Marcha = Brandeburgensis Marcha -- Map 61. Pomerania -- Map 62. Silesiae typus = Slesia -- Map 63. Austria -- Map 64. Bohemia -- Map 65. Salisburgum -- Map 66. Bavaria -- Map 67. Palatinatus Bavariae = Noricum -- Map 68. Franconia -- Map 69. Wirtenberg = Wirtenburgum -- Map 70. Tirolis comitat = Tirolis com -- Map 71. Helvetia -- Map 72. Italiae typus = Italia -- Map 73. Forum Iulii -- Map 74. Ducatus Mediolanensis, cum vicinis regionibus -- Map 75. Pedemontana reg = Pedemontium -- Map 76. Larius Lacus -- Map 77. Tuscia -- Map 78. Typus Regni Neapolitan = Neapolitan. Regnum -- Map 79. Perusia -- Map 80. Oropitum = Vrbiventum -- Map 81. Florentinum Dominium = Florentinus Ager -- Map 82. Veronensis Ager = Veronensis ditio -- Map 83. Cremonensis Ager = Cremona -- Map 84. Bresciano = Brixianus Ager -- Map 85. Cremae Ager = Cremensis ditio -- Map 86. Romanum territorium -- Map 87. Marca Anconitana = Anconitana Marca -- Map 88. Siena = Senense territorium -- Map 89. Aprutium -- Map 90. Apulia -- Map 91. Sicilia -- Map 92. Sardinia -- Map 93. Ischia Ins -- Map 94. Malta olim Melita = Melita -- Map 95. Corfu = Corcyra, Corfu -- Map 96. Candia = Creta nunc Candia -- Map 97. Cyprus -- Map 98. Graecia -- Map 99. Slavonia -- Map 100. Hungaria
Map 101. Oswiecz, et Zator = Oswic. et Zatoriensis ducatus -- Map 102. Transilvania = Transsilvania -- Map 103. Prussiae descriptio -- Map 104. Polonia -- Map 105. Livonia -- Map 106. Islandia = Islandia Insula -- Map 107. Septemtrionales reg = Septentrional. regiones -- Map 108. Russia -- Map 109. Tartaria: Sive Magni Chami imperium -- Map 110. China: Regio Asię -- Map 111. Iaponia Insula -- Map 112. India Orient -- Map 113. Persia -- Map 114. Turcicum imperium -- Map 115. Terra Sancta = Palaestina -- Map 116. Natolia -- Map 117. Aegyptus -- Map 118. Carthaginis sinus typus = Carthagin. Portus -- Map 119. Presbiteri Iohannis: Sive Abissinorum imperium = Abissinorum regio -- Map 120. Barbaria, et Biledulgerid -- Map 121. Fessae, et Marocci Regna = Fessae & Marocchi Regna -- Map 122. Corsica -- Map 123. Histria -- Map 124. Zara, et Sebenic = Zara, et Sebenicum -- Map 125. Patavinum ter = Patavinum territorium -- Map 126. Romania, Bulgaria, Walachia et Syrfia

Description

Alternative title Abrege dv theatre D'Ortelivs
Alternative title Abrege du theatre D'Ortelius, Anvers, 1602
Uniform title Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
Type of resource cartographic
Form electronic; computer; online resource
Extent 1 atlas ([6] pages, A5, 118, [9] leaves, [8] pages, [1] leaf of plates) : 126 maps (engravings) ; 13 x 16 cm (fol.)
Place Belgium
Place A Anvers [Antwerp]
Publisher Chez Iean Baptiste Vrients
Publication date 1602; anno 1602
Issuance monographic
Edition Derniere edition, corrigee en plusieurs lieux, & augmentee de quelques cartes nouvelles.
Language French
Map data Scales differ ; W 180°--E 180°/N 90°--S 90°).

Creators/Contributors

Cartographer Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598
Publisher Vrients, Jan Baptista, 1552-1612

Subjects

Subject World maps > Early works to 1800
Subject Europe > Maps > Early works to 1800
Subject Asia > Maps > Early works to 1800
Subject Africa > Maps > Early works to 1800
Subject America > Discovery and exploration > Maps > Early works to 1800
Subject Middle East > Maps > Early works to 1800
Subject Palestine > Maps > Early works to 1800
Subject Nile River Valley > Maps > Early works to 1800
Genre Atlas
Genre Cartographic image-cri

Bibliographic information

Note Miniature atlas produced by Vrients, who acquired the plates of Ortelius' pocket atlas in 1600.
Note Relief shown pictorially.
Note Index: Table des cartes.
Note Vellum binding.
Note First 6 and last 8 pages blank (included in page description).
Note Atlas ttle appears along tail edge of pages, when book is closed.
Note Gold leafing on page edges.
Note Engraved title page, including image of globe with wrapped text: Contemno, et orno: mente, manu.; colophon; and head-pieces throughout.
Note "Avecque privilege" on title page.
Note Colophon: Clara Ducum series, virtutum gloria maior, vos ornat titulis, et vos ornatis eosdem, vivite longaevis, Alberte, Isabellaque saeclis.
Note "Addition d'aulcunes cartes" includes final 5 maps.
Note Dedication and introductory text.
Note Descriptive text accompanies each map, on facing page.
Note Decorative cartouches, ships, sea monsters.
Note Maps show topography, vegetation, waterways, ports.
Note Plates with maps numbered, except first 3 maps.
Note Map 1 is a celestial chart.
Note Map 2 is a world map in 2 circular hemispheres.
Note Map 3 shows bird's eye view of Escorial, the Royal Palace of Phillip II, King of Spain.
Note Maps 76 and 96 contain descriptive text.
Note Some differences between titles within cartouches and titles above maps.
Language Latin throughout, including map titles.
Local note This copy has emblems imprinted onto front cover: Gang Forward ; WS; and back cover: Non mortale quod opto ; WS.
Local note Book plate inside front cover: Gang Forward ; William Stirling.
Local note Pencil inscription inside front cover: 20; ink inscription on page [1], at end.
Local note Paper inside front cover, back cover, first 2, and last 2 pages are blue; possibly added later.
Referenced by
Title
Tooley K-P: 358; Q-Z: 337
Location electronic resource

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