320 x 450mm., double-page engraved map

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De Jode’s rare map of Arabia, reduced from Giacomo Gastaldi’s seminal work, the first modern map of the Arabian peninsula.

Gastaldi's map was without question the most influential map of the region of its time, and heavily influenced the maps by Abraham Ortelius, Cornelius de Jode and Gerard Mercator in their respective atlases. Gastaldi used contemporary sources to give a more accurate picture of the area, although he still includes a mysterious and entirelᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚy fictional lake, "Stag Lago". Although not a slavish copy, de Jode’s map is by far the closest in style and content to the one published by Gastaldi in 1561.

The map appeared in the 1593 edition of Cornelis de Jode's atlas: Speculum Orbis Terrarum. The atlas was first issued by Cornelis' father Gerard in 1578; and although it received many favourable comments from contemporaries such as Petrus Montanus, it was not a commercial success. Following Gerard's death in 1591 Conelis published an englarged edition, however it faired just as badly as the first edition, and🐲 no further editions of the work were published.