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Hand-colored map of Cyprus with decorative cartouches, ships, and a sea monster. Relief of the topography is shown pictorially. There is also an inset map and a descriiptive cartouche: "Lemnos Insulae / descriptionem ex Petri Bellonii libro de Auibus, hoc in loco tanguam parergon adiecimus."
A page from the book Ortelius Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, French edition (print run of 300), Antwerp, 1608. Text on verso (106r); the last line, left aligned: "lib. al cap. 2. delle semplici Medicine di Galeno."


cartography
1608-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Ortelius, Abraham; Deutecum, Ioannis ��
ink; paper; color
19 in x 23 in
Antwerp