Auction: 15040 - Antique Maps sale during the International Exhibition
Lot: 149
Maps
Middle East
Persia
1574 Persici Sive Sophorum Regni Typus, by Abraham Ortelius; 23½ x 15½ inches, hand-coloured.
Ortelius based this fine map of the Persian Empire in part on Gastaldi's 1564 map of Asia Minor and on his own 1567 map of Asia. Decorative elements include large strap work title cartouche and a distance scale surmounted by a strange bestiary creature. Latin text on verso with page number 49. The map is centered on Persia and it also shows present-day Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Indus River. It is filled with many place names, details of the Persian Gulf and very attractive pictorial detail of topography and cities. Marcel van den Broecke estimates that 100 copies of this map were printed. (Ortelius 167).
On stout laid paper with crossed arrow watermark, usual central reinforcement, some light soiling, mostly confined to the edges. Photo
Estimate
SG$800 to SG$1,000
