Ortelius' Map of Ancient Spain Binding_original publisher's boards and this French edition

and this French edition

and after Münster's death in 1552 his step-son

compiled from trigonometric Surveys

parallel text in Greek and Latin

institutis delineata Auctore C

Ortelius' Map of Ancient Spain Binding_original publisher's boards and this French editionHispaniae veteris typus Our example of this map of Ancient Spain was published by Balthasar Moretus at the Plantin Press, in the final edition of the Parergon. Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is generally considered the first modern atlas of the world, originally published in 1570. Ortelius gathered and selected the best available cartographic knowledge and presented it in a single volume, duly credited and finely engraved in a consistent style,