Copper engraving on laid paper.

Print plate: 37 x 50.6 cm, sheet: 46.5 x 60.2 cm.

Decorative historical map of Romania and adjacent regions, with large scrollwork title cartouche "Romaniae (quae olim Thracia dicta) Vicinorumque Regionum, uti Bulgariae [...]", typographical text in Latin on verso; from "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", 1584. Buck crease, traces of handling, larger water stain on upper margin.

Flemish geographer and cartographer. His main work is the "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", the first commercially successful atlas, published in 42 editions between 1570 and 1612. The conjecture on the connection of the continents in his work "Thesaurus Geographicus" is considered the first written evidence of the foundations of the theories of continental drift.