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Nice full color example of Ortelius' map of coastal North Africa and the Mediterranean, from Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world.
The map extends from Morocco and the Sahara to Libya and shows most of the Mediterranean, including the Balearic Islands, Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia and Italy, along tih the Canaries off the coast of Africa.
Ortelius based his map on one published by an anonymous mapmaker in Venice in 1560, in turn that was based on Gastaldi's Africa (Meurer p. 87-88, 151).
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