1590 Outstanding Map ISCHIA QUAE OLIM AENARIA Italy Naples by Ortelius

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1590-1595 ISCHIA quae olim AENARIA by Ortelius.A fine map based on one included in Giulio Iasolinos book about Ischia and its beneficial thermal baths, published in 1568. There is charming pictorial topography throughout the map in addition to depictions of churches, towns and the locations of baths. Three large and decorative cartouches and a raging sea battle near the coast of Naples adorn the map. Frenchtext on verso, published circa 1595.Abraham Ortelius is perhaps the best known and most frequently collected of all sixteenth-century mapmakers. Ortelius started his career as a map colorist. In 1547 he entered the Antwerp guild of St Luke asafsetter van Karten. His early career was as a business man, and most of his journeys before 1560, were for commercial purposes. In 1560, while traveling with Gerard Mercator to Trier, Lorraine, and Poitiers, he seems to have been attracted, largely by Mercators influence, towards a career as a scientific geographer. From that point forward, he devoted himself to the compilation of hisTheatrum Orbis Terrarum(Theatre of the World), which would become the first modern atlas.In 1564 he completed his mappemonde, an eight-sheet map of the world. The only extant copy of this great map is in the library of the University of Basel. Ortelius also published a map of Egypt in 1565, a plan of Brittenburg Castle on the coast of the Netherlands, and a map of Asia, prior to 1570. On May 20, 1570, OrteliusTheatrum Orbis Terrarumfirst appeared in an edition of 70maps. By the time of his death in 1598, a total of 25 editions were published including editions in Latin, Italian, German, French, and Dutch. Later editions would also be issued in Spanish and English by Ortelius successors, Vrients and Plantin, the former adding a number of maps to the atlas, the final edition of which was issued in 1612. Most of the maps in OrteliusTheatrumwere drawn from the works of a number of other mapmakers from around the world;a list of 87 authors is given by Ortelius himself.In 1573, Ortelius published seventeen supplementary maps under the title ofAdditamentum Theatri Orbis Terrarum. In 1575 he was appointed geographer to the king of Spain, Philip II, on the recommendation of Arias Montanus, who vouched for his orthodoxy (his family, as early as 1535, had fallen under suspicion of Protestantism). In 1578 he laid the basis of a critical treatment of ancient geography withhisSynonymiageographica(issued by the Plantin press at Antwerp and republished asThesaurusgeographicusin 1596). In 1584 he issued hisNomenclatorPtolemaicus, aParergon (a series of maps illustrating ancient history, sacred and secular). Late in life, he also aided Welser in his edition of the Peutinger Table (1598).Condition excellent with central fold as issued. Later hand colour. Overall size including the margins approx 60cm x 48cm.Antique Paper Company are a long established family business selling original antique prints, maps engravings as well as many other paper antiques such as original vintage Decorative Posters, Ephemera, Stamps Postal History, Manuscripts, Antiquarian Books much more. We are always looking to buy and have up to andpound;500,000 in immediate funds available. We are looking for exceptional single items, better collections, original archives, Atlases, Libraries, accumulations etc and have previously purchased from Major Institutions, Libraries, Collectors, Solicitors many other sources. We are happy to travel almost anywhere in the world for the right opportunities. So please do get in touch if you are considering selling your Antique Paper collectables. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LM23-4986042

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