On 17th June 1570, Ortelius delivered forty copies of the atlas to Plantin. Vrients's widow then sold the plates to the Moretus brothers, who were the successors of Christoffel Plantijn.Īs noted by Peter Van der Krogt, "the first copies of the Theatrum were ready in June 1570. Vrients added new maps and published the atlas until his death in 1612. They, in turn, sold the collection to Jan Baptist Vrients (1522-1612) in 1601. Thus, in addition to Latin, the book was published with text in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and English.Īfter Ortelius's death in 1598, the copper plates for his atlas passed to his heirs. The broad appeal of the Theatrum saw demand from many consumers who preferred to read the atlas in their local language. Ortelius was the artist of all of the maps he drew them by hand, and those drawings were interpreted into prints by his engravers Frans Hogenberg, Ambrosius Arsenius, and Ferdinand Arsenius. Recent research has unearthed examples of the atlas with maps dated to 1640. The atlas was first published in 1570 in Antwerp, and it was published consistently until 1612. The Theatrum was the best available summary of 16th-century cartographic knowledge, covering much of the exploration of the world in the century following the discovery of America. Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (or "Theater of the World") is widely considered to be the first true modern atlas. This is the first state of the Theatrum, one of the forty copies sold by Ortelius Christoffel Plantijn, one of the most important publishers in the Low Countries, who would later in 1579 become the publisher of Ortelius' Theatrum. preliminary text leaves (including engraved title), 53 hand-colored double-page engraved maps, all mounted on original guards.įirst State of the First Edition of the 'First Atlas' with an Exceptional Contemporary Provenance The State of the First Modern Atlas of the World African Islands, including Madagascar (65).
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