Ortelius’ Map of Roman Dacia & Moesia Ancient Greece and an equally ludicrous land-ship

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

Some wear to bindings

Hieronymi Commelini opera

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’

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

Ortelius’ Map of Roman Dacia & Moesia Ancient Greece and an equally ludicrous land-shipDaciarum, 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,