Fine Cartographic and Printed Americana

Engraved world map, image 338 x 496 mm (sheet 450 x 540 mm), with contemporary hand-coloring. Title within a strapwork banner, quotation from Cicero lower margin, Latin text on verso (Van den Broecke 1584L1). (Some light marginal chipping with occasional minor losses, a few marginal tears repaired on verso, approximately 7-in. split to fold repaired on verso.)Ortelius's one-sheet reproduction on an oval projection of Mercator's 21-sheet world map of 1569. One of the most influential and frequently copied maps of the 16th century, this edition was engraved by Frans Hogenberg, whose name (but no year) appears lower right. This is the first (of three) world maps included in Ortelius' Theatrum orbis terrarum. Shirley 122; Van den Broecke 1.3 (with crack and bolt impressions visible lower left).