Ortelius’ Map of Roman Dacia & Moesia Ancient Greece

Ortelius’ Map of Roman Dacia & Moesia Ancient GreeceDaciarum, Moesiarumque, vetus descriptio This map of Ancient Dacia and Moesia, modern Romania and Bulgaria on the Black Sea was published by Balthasar Moretus at the Plantin Press, in the final edition of the Parergon. Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is generally considered the first modern atlas of the world, originally published in 1570. Ortelius gathered and selected the best available cartographic knowledge and presented it in a single volume,

and an equally ludicrous land-ship sailing towards a lunatic asylum

Thomas Hartwell

This map of Ancient Dacia and Moesia

Hieronymi Commelini opera

modern hand-colour

The map was published in Sir George Leonard Staunton's ‘An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China’

Here though

this is a detailed map of the Campagna Romana

Later editions saw the addition of two coastal profiles at the foot of the chart

alas not including the suppressed fifth volume

A version of the truth perhaps

Some wear to bindings