Beginning as a map-engraver, in 1547 he entered the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as an illuminator of maps. He travelled extensively in Europe and is specifically known to have traveled throughout the Seventeen Provinces in southern, western, northern, and eastern Germany (e.g., 1560, 1575–1576) France (1559–1560) England and Ireland (1576) and Italy (1578, and perhaps twice or thrice between 15). Abraham remained close to his cousin Emanuel van Meteren, who would later move to London. In 1575 he was appointed geographer to the king of Spain, Philip II, on the recommendation of Arias Montanus, who vouched for his orthodoxy. Following the death of Ortelius's father, his uncle Jacobus van Meteren returned from religious exile in England to take care of Ortelius. This rare antique original map North Africa by Ortelius, Abraham, published and printed 1574-79, is offered for sale by Antiquariat Reinhold Berg ek Original copper engraving, hand colored in outline and wash, published in a 1574 in a Latin text edition of the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' at C. In 1535, the family had fallen under suspicion of Protestantism. The Orthellius family were originally from Augsburg, a Free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. Ortelius was born on 14 April 1527 in the city of Antwerp, which was then in the Habsburg Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). Villages and towns are shown as miniature views. The map is ornated with a large title cartouche in the upper margin, as well we find for decoration a sea monsters and a ship in the sea. The map is equipped with many place names, rivers, mountains, towns, a small part of Italy, Sicily, the islands Corsica, Sardinia, Menorca, Mallorca, etc. Not because he is one of the mapmakers of the 16th century, but because he contributed perhaps most significantly to the progress of navigation. The 500th anniversary of Mercator's birth ought to be celebrated as a milestone in the history of cartography and navigation. This antique map shows North Africa with the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic coast. Lowlands sixteenth century cartography: Mercator's birth pentecentennial. Article description Original antique copper engraving, published 1573 in a German text edition of the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' at C.

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