
Any damage or delivery issues (regardless of any assistance offered by TPAG) are between the buyer and GP&S or other shipper chosen by the buyer.ģ) Shipping will occur after all payments have been made.

For pre-auction quotes or other information please contact: Global Packing & Shipping Phone: 20 Email: Ģ)ěuyers are to pay GP&S (or other shipper) directly for their services. Quotes for shipping large items may take longer. Shortly after the auction, you will receive an email from them with a quote for shipping. Very good condition, minor discoloration and bends to the margins, hand coloring is original.ġ) We have hired Global Packing & Shipping (GP&S) as our designated shipper. Korea is shown as an island and even less was known about it." 17" x 21 1/2" sheet, floated behind glass, in gold frrame, OS: 18 3/4" x 23 1/2". Little was known of this mythical and remote island. The map is the first reasonably accurate and recognizable European depiction of Japan. At the same time he promised a map of Brazil, but only the map of Japan and Korea was used for the Theatrum since 1595. With a letter dated at FebruTexeira sent to Ortelius "dos piesas de las descriptiones de la China y del Japan." (Hessels letter 210) Ortelius had asked for these maps in a previous letter, which has not been found. It retained its influence until more than fifty years later when a new milestone map appeared, the Martini map of 1655. 1595,' which gave the Royal and Brabant privilege for ten years, beginning in 1595.

A statement in the upper right corner reads, 'Cum Imperatorio, Regio, et Brabantiæ privilegio decennali.

The first printed map of Japan to appear in an atlas, in a first state. Korea is shown as an elongated island whilst Japan is shown with just the three principal islands of the archipelago. Per Paulus Swaen: "The map was based upon the manuscript draft supplied to Ortelius in about 1592 by the famous official Portuguese chart maker, Luis Teixeira, who was the cartographer to the court of the Spanish King. FIRST EUROPEAN MAP OF JAPAN - Abraham Ortelius: "Iaponiae Insulae Descriptio Ludoico Teisera auctore", with Korea shown as an island.
