"Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio", Ortelius, Abraham
Subject: Mediterranean Islands
Period: 1570 (circa)
Publication: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
Color: Hand Color
Size:
18.8 x 14.3 inches
47.8 x 36.3 cm
This is the first state of this splendid composite of six maps of the major islands in the Mediterranean: Sardinia, Sicily, Corfu, Djerba, Elba, and Malta. Each map is beautifully engraved and embellished with a variety of ships including a sinking ship off the coast of Malta where Saint Paul was supposed to have shipwrecked. Latin text on verso, published in either 1570 or 1571.
References: Van den Broecke #141.
Condition: A
On watermarked paper with a hint of soiling, a faint damp stain that just enters map image at top, and some small worm holes in the bottom blank margin.
