Details

Subject(s)

• Black Sea—History—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Donor

McCabe, Robert A., 1934- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Maps—Black Sea—1606 [Browse]

Related work(s)

Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598. Theatrum orbis terrarum. English [Browse]

Notes

• Relief shown pictorially.
• "Cum priuilegio Imp. Reg. et Belgico, Ad decennium 1590."
• From: Theatrum orbis terrarum Abrahami Orteli Antverp ... At London [i.e. Antwerp] : Printed by [typis H. Swingenij [for]] Iohn Norton, [1606].
• Text on verso in English.
• "Made by Ortelius on the basis of modern information from Mercator's South-East Europe atlas which appeared in 1589 ... and ancient knowledge from Plinius, Ovidius, Strabo, Apollonius, Procopius and Appianus."--M.P.R. van den Broecke, Ortelius atlas maps, p. 213.

Source acquisition

Historic Maps copy is gift of Robert A. McCabe, Princeton Class of 1956.

References

• Broecke, M.P.R. van den. Ortelius atlas maps 213
• Zacharakis, C.G. Catalogue of printed maps of Greece 1623

Other title(s)

Pontus Euxinus

OCLC

192102585

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