Copper engraving, painted in period style, 310x217 mm, Latin text. Map taken from ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’, the first modern atlas, comprising maps of all areas of the world; Ortelius's brilliant intuition, later Latinised, 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. A fine copy with wide margins on laid paper, slight halo in the left corners only in the margin without affecting the engraving. Van den Broecke 121