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Source institution: Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library

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Field Notes

Typus Orbis Terrarum

Published as the opening world map in Abraham Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570), this engraving belongs to a landmark coordinated atlas. It brings together the geographic knowledge of…