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Creator: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598.
Title: Typus orbis terrarum. Quid ei potest videri magna in rebus cui alter nitas omnis, totiusque mundi nota sit mangitudo. Cicero [cartographic material]
Scale: Scale [ca. 1:80,000,000]
Publisher: {Antwerpen : Plantjin, 1587]
Date: 1587
Material Type: Map
Physical Description: 1 map ; 33.5 x 48.9 cm. on sheet 47.2 x 58.3 cm.
Notes: Map of the world dominated by one continent in the south called Terra Australis Nondum Incognita surrounded by a decorative border with 4 cartouches of Latin text, one in each corner of the map. Relief is shown pictorially.

Cartouche with Latin in top left corner of map: Homi nes hac lege sunt generati ... [quote attributed to] Cicero.

Cartouche with Latin in top right corner of map: Equus vehendi causa ... [quote attributed to] Cicero.

Cartouche with Latin in bottom left corner of map: Hoc est punctum quod inter tot gentes ... [quote attributed to] Seneca.

Cartouche with Latin in bottom right corner of map: Utinam quemadmo dum universa mundi ... [quote attributed to] Seneca.

From: Theatrum orbis terrarum / Ortelius. Antwerpen : Plantjin, 1587.

Shirley, 158.

Koeman, Ort 22 [113]; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm146; Exhibited in online exhibition: 34zBSouth Land to New Holland"34y Bat http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/southland/ ANL
Subjects: World maps -- Maps.
World -- 1587 -- Maps.
Call Number: MAP RM 146
Amicus Number: 26998347
To cite this item use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm146