ATLAS MAPS, c.1580 onward 

"Cambaia," a miniature map by *Abraham Ortelius*, published in 1583, with modern hand coloring; CLICK ON THE MAP FOR A VERY LARGE SCAN
A version of the map from c.1616: *the whole map*: *northwest*; *northeast*; *southwest*; *southeast*

Other Ortelius miniature maps, from various atlases, many with modern hand coloring:

=*Malabar Coast (c.1580)* [from a reprint by Bertius, 1630]
=*India and Southeast Asia (1589)* -- *India and Southeast Asia (1598)* -- *India and Southeast Asia (1600)*
=*Asia (1570)*: *northwest*; *northeast*; *southwest*; *southeast*
=*Asia (1588)*, *a closer view*; *Asia (1598)*; *Asia (1600)*
; *Asia (1604)*
=*China (1588)*; *China (1598)*
=*Tartaria (1589)*
=*Persia (1579)*; *detail 1*; *detail 2*; *detail 3*
=*Persia (1589)*; *Persia (1598)*; *Persia (1600)*
=*Turkish Empire (1590)*
=*Anatolia (1588)*; *Anatolia (1598)*
=*Russia (1588)*; *Russia (1598)*
=*the Holy Land (1589)*
=*northern Africa and Arabia (1589)*; *northern Africa and Arabia (1598)*
=*Egypt (1588)*
=*Tunisia (1588)*
=*Barbaria (1590)*; *Barbaria (1598)*
=*Africa (1588)*, and *a closer view*; *Africa (1598)* -- *Africa (1600)*
=*Europe (1588)*; *Europe (1589)*
=*Germany (1588)*
=*France (1588)*
=*Italy (1588)*
=*Spain and Portugal (1588)*
=*Andalusia (1588)*
=*Scandinavia (1589)*
=*England (1588)*
=*Scotland (1588)*
=*the Americas* (1588)*; *the Americas (1598)* --*the Americas (1600)*
=*a world map (1598)*, and *a closer view*; *a world map (1600)*
=*a navigational world map (1598)*
=*world climate zones (1590)*: *a closer look*; *northwest*; *northeast*; *southwest*; *southeast*
=*world climate zones (1610)*: *a closer look*; *Asia*; *Africa*; *Europe*; *cartouche*
=*the ancient Indian Ocean according to Arrian (1592)*: *the South Asia region*; *a closer view*

From a full-sized map of Asia by Ortelius, 1595 [early ed. 1575]: *the whole map*; *northwest*; *northeast*; *southwest*; *southeast*; *north India and Persia*

From a 1587 edition of this map: *western Asia*, *the Deccan and the South* (shown above)


*An interesting discussion of a map of Asia, 1603 [1570] from the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'*



*Arrian's Asia, including the wanderings of Odysseus, as depicted by Ortelius in 1624*


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