|n Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 1148:1)Īn epitome of Ortelius his Theater of the vvorld, vvherein the principal regions of the earth are descrived in smalle mappes.
|a Reproduction of the original in the British Library. |a With a final list of maps the last two leaves are blank. |a "An addition to the epitomies of Abraham Ortelius his littel theatre" has separate divisional title and foliation register is continuous. At least one copy has been noted with an additional letterpress title page, not included in foliation above. |a An abridgment by Coignet of: Theatrum orbis terrarum. |b Printed for Ieames Shawe, and are to be solde at his shoppe nigh Ludgate,
|a Addition to the epitomies of Abraham Ortelius his littel theatre. and amplefyed with larger descriptions, then any done heere to fore. mathematition of Antwarpe beeinge more exactlye set forth. |b nowe latlye, since the Latine Italian, Spanishe, and Frenche editions, renewed and augmented, the mappes all newe grauen according to geographicall measure. |a Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the Theater of the worlde Eisenhower Parkway, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-3218
Ortelius's small Atlas The Epitome published from 1590 ran for many editions and was very popular.|b ProQuest. with many newly prepared maps began to supersede Ortelius' work. Publication reverted to the Plantin Press, under the control of the Moretus brothers, from 1612.Īlthough only the relatively unsuccessful atlases of De Jode and, ultimately, Mercator were published during the sixteenth century life of the Theatrum …, in 1607 Jodocus Hondius's issue of Mercator's Atlas. Between 16 it was published by Johann Baptist Vrients, who added a variety of fine maps including the very decorative large plates of England and Wales, and of Ireland. Amongst this latter category, the maps added in the 1580's and 90's of the world, the Americas, China, the Pacific, Japan, Peru and Florida, and Iceland are important historically and justly famous.The maps themselves are finely engraved, often very decorative and generally found with text on the reverse.Īfter Ortelius' death in 1598 the atlas continued to be printed and published by the Plantin Press. Marcel Van Den Broecke, whose fascinating work on Ortelius and his maps is often quoted, estimates that around 7300 complete atlases were published using a total of 234 copperplates, either replacements or reworkings as plates became out-dated, worn, or as new information became available. Over 30 different editions, with text in Latin, French, Dutch, German, Italian, English or Spanish, testify to the popularity and esteem attributed to the work. It was also an immediate commercial success, being reprinted four times in 1570. The atlas achieved instant fame as "the world's first regularly produced atlas" (Skelton), being the first atlas with maps prepared to a uniform format. Having already become probably the greatest cartographic bibliographer of the period, Ortelius was able to prepare 53 map sheets based on the most up-to-date information, which were engraved by Frans Hogenberg, and first published in 1570. At this time, Ortelius also began preparing his greatest project, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. From about 1560, possibly as a result of his friendship with Mercator, Ortelius began to produce maps - an eight sheet world map being the earliest.
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