Abraham Ortelius
AD 1527 – AD 1598
Antwerp
Brabantian cartographer and geographer whose Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) is regarded as the first modern atlas: a uniform, bound set of map sheets with a credited list of sources.
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Maps in the collection
- Typus Orbis Terrarum, plate 1, state 1.1 · AD 1570 · Antwerp
- Ortelius Theatrum · AD 1570 · Antwerp
- Typus Orbis Terrarum, plate 1, early impression · AD 1571 · Antwerp
- Typus Orbis Terrarum, plate 1, 1572 impression · AD 1572 · Antwerp
- Typus Orbis Terrarum, plate 1, state 1.3 · AD 1575 · Antwerp
- Typus Orbis Terrarum, plate 1, state 1.4 · AD 1579 · Antwerp
- Typus Orbis Terrarum, plate 1, state 1.5 · AD 1584 · Antwerp
- Typus Orbis Terrarum, plate 2, state 2.1 · AD 1587 · Antwerp
- Typus Orbis Terrarum, plate 2, state 2.3 · AD 1588 · Antwerp
- Typus Orbis Terrarum, plate 3, state 3.2 · AD 1613 · Antwerp