Caption title on verso: Die Newe Welt; numbered "2" in lower right corner., From a German edition of Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum, published either 1572 or 1573., Imperfect: wormholes, with some loss of text. Sheet measures 39.8 x 52.3 cm. Cross Collection no. 111., Latin text on recto, German text on verso., and Relief shown pictorially.
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Geographic):
America--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598. Theatrum orbis terrarum. German
From Ortelius's Theatrum oder Schawbüch des Erdtkreijs [Antwerp : Christophe Plantin, Abraham Ortelius, 1580]., Latin and German., Several small holes in lower regions of South America where oxidized by pigment., Sheet measures 40 x 55 cm. Lanman Collection., Signature on verso: 5., Text on verso: Die newe Welt., and The viewer looks into the sails of the ship at 220 degrees of longitude.
Publisher:
Christophe Plantin, Abraham Ortelius,
Subject (Geographic):
America--Maps--Early works to 1800 and Western Hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598. Theatrum orbis terrarum. German and Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589
Collection of eleven documents on parchment with wax seals on parchment ribbon, relating to the monastery of Amorbach; Heinrich, abbot of Amorbach and villages in the surrounding area.
Asia is portrayed as Pegasus., From Bünting's Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae [Magdeburg : H. Bünting, 1581]., Signature mark on verso: E., Text on margin: Iesus Christus magnus ille Belleropontes ..., and Text on verso: In dieser nachfolgenden Tafel findet der g
Appears in Bünting's Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae., In top margin corners: 26 -- 27., Relief shown pictorially., Signature mark on verso: G., and Text on verso.