![]() Elsewhere it has been suggested that Gerard Mercator was the progenitor of the idea for the first standardized atlas, but that he held back from competing with Ortelius out of a spirit of friendliness. At the time, Italy was the center of global cartographic publishing.Therefore Ortelius ordered from Rome an «Italian Assembled to Order Atlas» (or «Lafreri School» atlas) with 38 maps. When Radermaker befriended Ortelius in 1555, he evidently passedthe task off to him. ![]() Apparently, Hooftman found unrolling large maps to be unwieldy, so it was suggested to him by Jan Radermaker to bind his maps up in book form. Ortelius’s Theatrum has its genesis in the 1550s when the merchant Gilles Hooftmanwas building a practical map collection. When it was published in 1570, the Theatrum was the best available summary of 16th-century cartographic knowledge, covering much of the exploration of the world in the century following the discovery of America. Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is widely considered to be the first true modern atlas. ![]() «A landmark in cartographic publication, for it is the first largemodern atlas.» (PMM, 91)Įxceptional, unsophisticated example of the first state of Abraham Ortelius’s Theatrum, one of the most important works in the Western Canon. Collation: A-DII (including engraved title), 53 double-page engraved maps, a-iII, k-Nii, o. Small loss to the tail of the spine a bit unevenly warped at the edges, possibly a temporary publisher’s binding intended to be replaced later. Contemporary limp vellum With 53 double-page engraved maps, all in first states.
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