Copper engraving, 359x462 mm, magnificent coloring, hand-painted from the period; Latin text on the reverse, with the paper number 50 in the lower right corner. It depicts the islands of Sicily, Sardinia, Malta, Elba, Corfu, and Gerba in six panels. Taken from “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum,” the first modern atlas, including maps of all areas of the world; Ortelius's brilliant intuition, later Latinized, was precisely this: before then, cartographic production had been irregular and local in terms of production, and the few atlases, the so-called “Lafrerian Atlases,” were compiled on request, collecting maps of some areas and ignoring others. Ortelius brought together the heterogeneous cartographic production of the period into a single corpus, forming the basis for an enormously successful publishing venture, published from 1570 to 1612. Excellent copy with wide margins, slight reddening at the top of the central fold. Bibliography: Van Den Broecke 141. Gini with slight browning. Bibliography: Van Den Broecke, Ortelius Atlas maps, 216.