An early example of Ortelius’s classic map of Ireland
Eryn. Hiberniae Britannicae Insulae, Nova Descriptio. Irlandt.
Antwerp, 1574, French text edition. Original colour with later additions. 360 x 485mm.
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A classic collector's map of Ireland, orientateted with north to the right. It is an early example, published in a French-text 'Additamentum', a collection of new maps not in the first edition of the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. The map did not appear in a full French 'Theatrum' until 1581.




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