Subject: Hungary
Period: 1573 (published)
Publication: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
Color: Hand Color
Size:
19.6 x 13.8 inches
49.8 x 35.1 cm
A handsome map of Hungary, eastern Transylvania and Bulgaria. Ortelius based this map on Wolfgang Lazius' 1556 five-sheet wall map. The map is densely engraved with rivers, lakes, mountains and hundreds of place names, each represented by a tiny castle and tiny animals fill the blank spaces. The title spans the top of the map in a strapwork cartouche. At bottom right is a large decorative cartouche containing the rules for Hungarian consonant pronunciation of the place names. This is the second state, published in the first Dutch edition in 1573.
References: Van den Broecke #150.
Condition: B+
Original color on watermarked paper with some damp stains in blank margins that just enter map border in corners. There are a couple of areas of paper weakness in blank margins, with a resulting small hole in bottom right corner, not affecting map.