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Indiae Orientalis Insularumque Adiacentium Typus - Antique map

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East Indies. "Indiae Orientalis Insularumque Adiacentium Typus". Orig. copperplate engraving, A. Ortelius, 1570. Orig. old colouring. With ornament. title cartouche, a coat of arms, mermaids and sea creatures. 35:50 cm.

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Ortelius, Abraham

Ortelius, Abraham

Antwerp

1570

East Indies (Southeast Asia). "Indiae Orientalis Insularumque Adiacentium Typus". Orig. copperplate engraving, A. Ortelius, 1570. Orig. old colouring. With ornament. title cartouche, another cartouche with explanatory notes, a coat of arms, mermaids and sea creatures (attacking a galleon in upper right corner of the map). 35:50 cm (13 3/4 x 19 3/4 inch.) on paper sized 40:53 cm.

V. d. Broecke 166; Koeman III, map 8400:31, ed 31:001 (1570 Latin - first edition of Ortelius' 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' atlas). - Decorative map of Southeast Asia - China, India, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, part of northern Australia ('Beach, pars continentis Australis') and west coast of California ('Americae, Sive Indiae Occidentalis pars').


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