Pontos Euxeinos = Pontus Euxinus : æquor Iasonio pulsatum remige primum [map] / ex conitabus geographicis Abrahami Ortelij.

Author
Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598 [Browse]
Format
Map
Language
  • English
  • Latin
  • Modern Greek (1453-)
Published/​Created
[London [i.e. Antwerp] : J. Norton, 1606]
Description
  • Scale [ca. 1:3,750,000]. (E 26°30ʹ00ʺ--E 42°15ʹ00ʺ/N 48°15ʹ00ʺ--N 40°15ʹ00ʺ).
  • 1 map ; 34 x 49 cm.

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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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