Typus orbis terrarum

Title:: Typus orbis terrarum
Creator:: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598
Date:: [ca. 1608–1612]
Format:: Maps/Atlases
Location:: Phillips Academy
Collection (local):: Sidney R. Knafel Map Collection at Phillips Academy, Andover MA
Subjects:: World maps
Extent:: 1 map : hand col. ; 36 x 49 cm.
Terms of Use:: Rights status not evaluated.
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Publisher:: [Antwerp] : [Abraham Ortelius]
Scale:: Scale [ca. 1:80,000,000]
Language:: Latin
Notes:: Relief shown pictorially.
Prime meridian: Ferro.
Includes ill. and medallions in corners with quotations from Cicero and Seneca.
Text on verso, titled Il circuito della terra.
From an Italian edition of Ortelius' Theatrum orbis terrarum.
Notes (citation):: Shirley, R.W. Mapping of the world, 158
Notes (language):: Map in Latin. Text on verso in Italian.
Identifier:: 1429