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THE MOST FAMOUS EARLY MAP OF ICELAND. ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Islandia. Antwerp 1606.

Handcoloured (old colour) engraved map with 3 cartouches and sea monsters in colours, together with many other animals such as polar bears, foxes, cows, and the eruption of the vulcano Hekla. Size about 340x495 mm. English text on verso. Wear to the centrefold, mostly to lower part with a repair to margin, small split in the middle, some creases to lower part, a few minor spots, some soiling to margins, part of lower margin with repair on verso. Framed.

Van den Broecke 161.2 (with key letters added for the monsters). English edition with page number 103 (300 copies printed). The Iceland map was first published in 1587.

From the atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, first edition printed 1570 by Abraham Ortelius' (1527-98).
The map was drawn by a Danish mapmaker, Anders Sorensen Velleius (or Vedel). It also has many interesting details such as polar bears playing on ice floes, or hunting foxes ("Here is clever hunting by foxes, that inspect birds nests and destroy them" or "The Hekla, perpetually condemned to storms and snow, spews stones under terrible noise", translation from the Latin text).

Auktionsnummer:

6166

Datum:

2019-06-14