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Fine and early historical map of Italy based on classical sources and Gastaldi’s from the 1624 final edition by Balthasar Moretus of the first historical atlas ever published. Ortelius’s Parergon began as a companion to his Theatrum but eventually it became an independent work. In fact, this collection of maps of the ancient world was so significant that it became the model for all historical atlases published throughout the seventeenth century. “The maps and plates…
- Year: 1624
- Dimension: 346 x 483 mm
- Place of publication: Antewerp
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First edition of the map depicting Italy as it was known in Roman times. Taken from Abraham Ortelius’s Theatri Orbis Terrarum Parergon; Sive Veteris Geographiae Tabulae, the first historical atlas ever published, printed in Antwerp in 1584. The first edition of this beautiful map is easily recognizable by the presence, at the bottom, of an elaborate decorative cartouche enclosing the title “Italia” and the allegorical figure of the peninsula, instead of the double medallion that…
- Year: 1584
- Dimension: 346 x 483 mm
- Place of publication: Antewerp
