Berry Limagne Antique France - Ortelius 1579
- Old France Map - Berry and Limagneantique Regions - Ortelius 1579 - This is an exquisite full-color Reproduction printed on high-quality gloss paper, art paper or canvas.
Print Size: 23.00 x 30.41 inches
Sites and Townships Specific To This Map Are: Bourges, Touraine, Gian, Cosne, Vierzon, Chastegumeillant, Beauregard, Cleremont, Rion, and many more.
The following towns are featured: two detailed regional maps of Berry and Limagne France by Ortelius. Latin text is shown throughout, with hand-coloring. Abraham Ortelius was a Flemish cartographer and geographer who created the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. After studying Greek, Latin, and mathematics, Ortelius went into business with his sister as a book dealer and printer of maps. His work, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, was the first uniformly sized, systematic collection of maps, therefore the first atlas. This map covers two regions in France, one still being a principality.
This Map is Situated in: France, Continent of Europe.
SKU: ITBE0004
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