Dalmatia - Illyricum - Antique map

Author: Ortelius, Abraham

Publisher: Ortelius, Abraham

Published: Antwerp

Publishing year: 1572

Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. "Illyricum". Orig. copperplate engraving, A. Ortelius, Antwerp, 1572 after J. Sambucus' map. Orig. old colouring. With ornamental title-cartouche and the scale of map ("Milliaria communia & magna"). 37:48 cm (14 1/2 x 19 inch.).

V. d. Broecke 144; Koeman III, map 7640:31, ed. 31:031 (1584 Latin). - A decorative map of Illyricum, former Roman province. It stretched from the Drin river in modern Albania to Istria (Slovenia/Croatia) in the north and the Sava river (Bosnia/Croatia) in the east. Its capital was located at Salonae near modern Split in Croatia. - A very nice copy in beautiful old colouring. -  János Zsámboky or János Zsámboki or János Sámboki (with his humanist name Latin: Johannes Sambucus, 1 June 1531 – 13 June 1584) was a Hungarian humanist scholar: physician, philologist, historian and cartographer.

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