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The Trade in Individual Maps from Ortelius’s Theatrum orbis terrarum after 1612

2017; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 70; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/03085694.2018.1382104

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Dirk Imhof,

Geographic Information Systems Studies

In 1612, following the death of the Antwerp print publisher Jan Baptist Vrients, Balthasar I and Jan Moretus II, at the time the managers of the Plantin Press, bought the copper plates used to print Abraham Ortelius’s Theatrum orbis terrarium, together with the remainder of Vrients’s stock of the atlas. Subsequently, they reissued various editions of the Theatrum, selling them under their own names. They also traded in individual maps from the Theatrum, printing more when necessary. Hundreds of maps were sent to clients all over Europe. This article gives an overview of this so far unknown distribution of Ortelius’s maps in the first half of the seventeenth century.