“Typus chorographicus, celebrium locorum in regno Iudae et Israhel.”

ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM

Antwerp, first edition 1590 (or later)

Double-page hand-colored copperplate map.

Laor 546.

From: Abraham Ortelius. Additamentum IV Theatri orbis terrarum. Antwerp, Officina Plantiniana, 1590. p.19. Decorated with Baroque-style title cartouche upper left and imprint cartouche lower right with mileage-scale. The shoreline runs from the southwestern Rhinocorura to the northeastern Beirut. With Latin text on verso: “Ivdaea et Israhel.” Although dated 1586, the map was first published in 1590.