Asiae Nova Descriptio
[Antwerp, Plantin, from the second version of the plate, re-engraved circa 1574]. A hand-coloured engraved map from Ortelius' groundbreaking 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum', considered the first modern geographical atlas, 'produced in thirty-one editions between 1570 and 1612' (David Parry: 'The Cartography of the East Indian Islands', 2005). Archivally mounted, ready for..... More