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Typus
Orbis Terrarum
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This is a unique opportunity to
purchase the rarest edition of Abraham Ortelius's world map
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Typus
Orbis Terrarum - second edition, Ort 2. Only 500 of
Ort 2 were published between 1586 & 1588 with only 14
copies known to have survived, this being one of the 14.
This is a beautifully hand coloured, original
antique map on sturdy clean paper.
Prior
to my acquiring the map from Marcel P R van den Broecke
- the world authority on Ortelius Maps and author of "Ortelius
Atlas Maps" - the map underwent some small
professional restoration. Backed and pressed onto
archival paper, these restorations, a 2cm sq one to the
image and an 11cm x 1cm one to the bottom margin,
have been carried out expertly and are almost invisible.
As the map has been pressed onto the archival backing
paper the centerfold and plate-mark impressions have
almost been pressed out. A more comprehensive
description is available below and also on the
Certificate of Authenticity from Marcel van den
Broecke, that accompanies the map.
Ortelius published 3 World maps over the life of his
atlas
Theatrum Orbis
Terrarum,
between 1570 & 1612. These maps are
referred to as Ort 1, Ort 2 & Ort 3. Within these
three map editions necessary changes, repairs & updates
were made to the plates (referred to as states) with Ort
1 changing 5 times, Ort 2 changed 3 times and Ort 3
changed twice. This map specifically is Ort 2
state 3 or Ort2:3
which is easily identified by
the removal of the western bulge to the South American
coast, whilst still retaining the decorative cloud
surround.
To put the scarcity of this map in context please
consider. Of the total 6950 world maps
published by Ortelius, only 411 have survived. This means that the 14
surviving copies of Ort 2
constitute less than 4% of all the known Ortelius World
maps still in existence.
Blank verso.
Map history & background.
1st
edition (Ort 1)
– States 1.1 through to 1.5.
A total of 3250 maps from this plate were published
between 1570 & 1584. Today it is estimated that there
are 236 loose copies in circulation of all 5 states
Ortelius Plate 1.1
2nd
edition (Ort 2)
- States 2.1 through to 2.3.
A total of 500 maps from this plate were published
between 1586 & 1588. Today it is estimated that there
are 14 loose copies in circulation of all 3 states.
Ortelius Plate 2.3
3rd
edition (Ort 3)
– States 3.1 through to 3.2.
A total of 3200 maps from this plate were published
between 1589 & 1612. Today it is estimated that there
are 161 loose copies in circulation of both states.
Ortelius Plate 3.1
Ortelius' world map is
a simplified one-sheet reduction of Mercator's large
world map which had appeared the year before. Nearly
all the legends, textual panels and decorative features
of Mercators map
have been omitted; between the oval circumference of the
map and the outer frame are now clouds and below, a
quotation from Cicero. From surviving correspondence, it
is known that Mercator generously encouraged Ortelius to
make use of his published research; he also
provided him with coordinates of places in America and
other newly discovered regions of the world. In the
first edition South America retains the unusual
bulged south-west coast as drawn by Mercator. There is also
a prudent comment adjacent to New Guinea querying
whether this large island is part of the southern
continent or not.
The original plate, like a number of others in the
Atlas, were signed by the engraver Franciscus (Frans)
Hogenberg and was used for the first sixteen editions of
the Theatrum.
In nearly all places there is text on the reverse of the
map in the language indicated but a few copies are known
which lack reverse text. Between 1575 and 1579 the plate
became cracked along the lower left hand corner. The
crack was roughly mended and the whole border of the
clouds substantially reworked; editions from 1579 to
1584 contain this revised state 2 of plate 1. Ortelius
subsequently produced two further world maps, each
slightly improved geographically.
Several of these states co-existed; for instance
although plate 3 carries the date 1587, it does not seem
to have been issued until 1592. Only one example has
been sighted of the first state plate 2 of 1586. State 3
of plate 2 is also uncommon but it re-appears in the
British Library's copy of the Dutch 1598 edition of the
Theatrum which, as noted by Koeman, was often made up of
earlier stock sheets.
Ortelius' map was copied widely, and derivatives were
later used to illustrate works by Voisin, Broughton,
Maffei, Bell-Forest, Petri, Hakluyt and others.
Cartographical sources were
Gerard Mercator 1569 & Gastaldi 1561 world maps and
Diego Gutierrez' portolan map of the Atlantic.
Next to the list at the bottom of the text, Ortelius
mentions in his Catalogus Auctorum the world maps by
Peter ab Aggere from Mechelen, Sebastian Cabotus from
Venice, Laurentius Fries from Antwerp, Jacobus Gastaldi,
Gemma Frisius from Antwerp, Guicciardinus from Antwerp,
Doco ab Hemminga Frisius, and Orontius Finæus from
Paris.
Background of
Theatrum Orbis
Terrarum
For the first time, in
1570, all the elements of the modern Atlas were brought
to publicationin Abraham Ortelius' Atlas Theatrum Orbis
Terrarum. This substantial undertaking assembled
fifty-three of the best available maps of the world by
the most renowned and up to date geographers.
Unlike earlier compositions, such as the Italian
composite or "Lafreri" Atlases, each of Ortelius' maps
was engraved specifically for his Atlas according to
uniform format. Through its launching, pre-eminence in
map publishing was transferred from Italy to the
Netherlands, leading to over a hundred years of Dutch
supremacy in all facts of cartographical production.
There were a
total of 7300 copies of Theatrum published
between 1570 - 1612 from 31 editions.
Historical sales data
A total
of 114 sales of this map across all editions from 1983 to 2011.
From the
1st edition there are 40 known sales, from the 2nd
edition
there are 3 known sales leaving 48 sales from the third
edition. The following is a further breakdown of sales
data per edition.
Edition # 1
– 49 sales from 1983 to 2011 with a top price of $18,172
for an 1570 edition (Ort1:4) in 2005.
Edition # 2
- 4 sales between 1985 & 2007 with a top price of
$18,000 for a 1586 Ort 2:3 in 2007
Edition # 3
- 60 sales from 1985 to 2011 with a top price of $17,759
paid for a 1606 Ort 3 in 2000.
(Please
note the condition of these maps is largely unknown,
condition is a major contributing factor to value). (Ref: Van Den Broecke; Tooley; Shirley; Rosenthal)
Please
note all items saleed are genuine, we do not sell
reproductions. A
Certificate of Authenticity (COA) can be issued on
request.
Condition
Report
General Description:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color: - off white
Age of map color: - Original
Colors used: - Yellow, green, blue, pink
General color appearance: - Authentic
Paper size: - 20in x 14 ½in (510mm x 370mm)
Plate size: - 19 ½in x 13 1/4in (495mm x 340mm)
Margins: - Min ½in (10mm)
Imperfections:
Margins:
-
Professional 11cm restoration to bottom margin, 1cm into
image. Light soiling
Plate area: -
Small
2cm sq professional restoration below the ST of
Australis
Verso: -
Map backed with archival paper
Overall Quality (in Bold):
Perfect/Fine/Very Good/Good/Fair/Poor
Abraham Ortelius 1528-98
Abraham Ortel, better
known as Ortelius, was born in Antwerp and after
studying Greek, Latin and mathematics set up business
there with his sister, as a book dealer and 'painter of
maps'. Traveling widely, especially to the great book
fairs, his business prospered and he established
contacts with the literati in many lands. On one such
visit to England, possibly seeking temporary refuge from
religious persecution, he met William Camden whom he is
said to have encouraged in the production of the
Britannia.
A turning-point in
his career was reached in 1564 with the publication of a
World Map in eight sheets of which only one copy is
known: other individual maps followed and then - at the
suggestion of a friend - he gathered together a
collection of maps from contacts among European
cartographers and had them engraved in uniform size and
issued in 1570 as the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Atlas
of the Whole World). Although Lafreri and others in
Italy had published collections of 'modern' maps in book
form in earlier years, the Theatrum was the first
uniformly sized, systematic collection of maps and hence
can be called the first atlas, although that term itself
was not used until twenty years later by Mercator.
The Theatrum, with
most of its maps elegantly engraved by Frans Hogenberg,
was an instant success and appeared in numerous editions
in different languages including addenda issued from
time to time incorporating the latest contemporary
knowledge and discoveries. The final edition appeared in
1612. Unlike many of his contemporaries Ortelius noted
his sources of information and in the first edition
acknowledgement was made to eighty-seven different
cartographers.
Apart
from the modern maps in his major atlas, Ortelius
himself compiled a series of historical maps known as
the Parergon Theatri which appeared from 1579
onwards, sometimes as a separate publication and
sometimes incorporated in the
Theatrum
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