This revised edition contains corrections, extra information to date the charts more correctly, descriptions of the title page and a portrait of Ortelius.

With an introduction by Leon Voet, and with 20 contributions by Günter Schilder, Rodney Shirley, Dennis Reinhartz, H.A.M. van der Heijden, Marijke Spies and ot

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