The work features engravings of the "Tabula Peutingeriana", a depiction of the Roman world divided into four sheets, using Ortelius's plates. In addition, this section includes an extra map, the ninth, created especially for this atlas and not found elsewhere. The maps are hand-coloured, with highlighted outlines and decorative title cartouches, showing geographical features and the main towns and cities. Relief is shown pictorially.
Petrus Bertius, born in Beveren, Flanders, on 14 November 1565, was professor of mathematics and librarian at the University of Leiden. In 1618 he became cosmographer and historiographer to Louis XIII of France. The author of numerous geographical and theological works, this three-part atlas is his most celebrated work, based mainly on Ptolemy's "Geographia".
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Print on handmade Amalfi paper Sheet size: 29 x 42 cm (11.4 x 16.5 in) With frame: 31 x 44 cm (12.2 x 17.3 in) Material: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges Frame: light brown beech wood and wood pulp, handmade
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