Lincoln, AbrahamABAA
Ortelius, AbrahamBiblio.com
Hispalensis Conventus Delineatio Auctore Hieronymo Chiaues.
1598réf. 16774Antwerp: Platin 1598. Other. A very good example a small older mended clear split in the upper centerfold. 350 by 460mm 13 by 18 inches. Original antique copper engraving published 1598 in a French textedition of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Finely hand-colored in wash and outline. The map is ornated with three cartouches in the lower right corner the title cartouche in the upper right corner we find a small cartouche with privilegium and in the upper left corner a small cartouche with a milage scale. Villages and towns are shown as miniature views moreover the map is ornated with ships sea monsters and animals as well a compass rose in the sea. Ortelius was born on 14 April 1527 in the city of Antwerp which was then in the Habsburg Netherlands modern-day Belgium. The Orthellius family were originally from Augsburg a Free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1535 the family had fallen under suspicion of Protestantism. Following the death of Ortelius's father his uncle Jacobus van Meteren returned from religious exile in England to take care of Ortelius. Abraham remained close to his cousin Emanuel van Meteren who would later moved to London. In 1575 he was appointed geographer to the king of Spain Philip II on the recommendation of Arias Montanus who vouched for his orthodoxy. He travelled extensively in Europe and is specifically known to have traveled throughout the Seventeen Provinces; in southern western northern and eastern Germany e.g. 1560 15751576; France 15591560; England and Ireland 1576; and Italy 1578 and perhaps twice or thrice between 1550 and 1558. Beginning as a map-engraver in 1547 he entered the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as an illuminator of maps. He supplemented his income trading in books prints and maps and his journeys included yearly visits to the Frankfurt book and print fair where he met Gerardus Mercator in 1554. In 1560 however when travelling with Mercator to Trier Lorraine and Poitiers he seems to have been attracted largely by Mercator's influence towards the career of a scientific geographer. Wikipedia Broe. 28 Platin unknown
Antiquariat Reinhold Berg ek · Allemagne467,29 $US≈ 416,67 €
