Mallet’s Map of Poland Mapmaker(s)_Abraham Ortelius

Mallet’s Map of Poland Mapmaker(s)_Abraham OrteliusThis map of Poland is from Mallets Description de lUnivers. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 14. 5 x 10. 5 cm, recent hand colour, French text on verso.

ink stamp confirming corrections to September 1924

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assiegee et prise par les Troupes auxillaires de France et de Saxe […]

shortly before his retirement in 1934

gilt-ruled with gilt ornaments and title lettered direct to spine

Garbutt believed he had ‘rescued’ the London Underground map from the clutches of Harold Hutchison and his ‘ham-fisted parody’ of Beck’s designs

Beck remained directly associated with it until 1960 except for a short period when responsibility for revising and updating the map passed to Hans Schleger

Niebuhr was the sole survivor of the Royal Danish Arabia Expedition of 1761-1767

and although it was briefly recaptured Tunis had been Ottoman for 20 years by the time our example of the map was published

The outline of the Crimean peninsular becomes a puff of smoke - an ingenious use of cartography

the surveyor and publisher of the map

Basileae [Basel]: [Hieronymus Froben and Nikolaus Episcopius