Ortelius, Abraham:: Barbariae et Biledulgerid, nova descriptio

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Ortelius, Abraham: : Barbariae et Biledulgerid, nova descriptio

Copper engraving, 33 x 50.5 cms, original hand-colour, Latin text on verso.

North Africa was a part of the Mediterranean world and trade links were significant. Ortelius gives some information here found on no other printed maps of the period, and may therefore have been working from a Portugese or Venetian manuscript.

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Ortelius, Abraham : Barbariae et biledulgerid nova descriptio

Antwerp, Plantin, 1593.

80 x 110mm. Coloured.

Minature map of Morocco and Algeria, engraved by Philip Galler for Ortelius's Epitome, this example for an Italian-text edition, translated by Giovanni Paulet

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