Copperplate engraving, charming back coloring, mm 80x110. Pleasing miniature map taken from “Epitome du Theatre du monde” a pocket edition of the “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum” the first modern atlas, including maps of all areas of the world; the ingenious intuition of Ortels, later Latinized into Ortelius, was precisely this: before that time cartographic production had been irregular, local in level of production and the few atlases, the so-called “Lafrerian Atlases” were formed on request collecting only maps of certain areas. Ortelius brought together the heterogeneous cartographic production of the period into a single corpus, forming the basis for a hugely successful publishing venture, published between 1570 and 1612. Good copy