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Also Known As Abraham Ortels • Abraham Wortels
Born April 14, 1527 • Antwerp • Belgium
Died July 4, 1598 (aged 71) • Antwerp • Belgium

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Map from Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum
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Aaron Arrowsmith, engraving by T.A. Dean after a portrait by H.W. Pickersgill
Aaron Arrowsmith
British geographer and cartographer
Bartholomew, John George
John George Bartholomew
Scottish cartographer and publisher
Gerardus Mercator; engraving by Franz Hogenberg, 1574.
Gerardus Mercator
Flemish cartographer
Ogilby, engraving by William Camden Edwards, 1820, after a drawing by J. Thurston
John Ogilby
British printer
John Adair
Scottish surveyor
Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map
Martin Waldseemüller
German cartographer
Theodor de Bry
Flemish-German engraver
Pierre François Didot
French publisher and printer
Nathaniel Currier
American lithographer
Augusto de Campos
Brazilian poet and critic
Frank E. Compton
American publisher
François Didot
French printer and bookseller
Robert Ballard
French printer
Hyacinthe-Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
Pierre Didot
French printer and typesetter
John Cowles
American publisher
Ambroise-Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Henry Richard Vizetelly
British-Italian publisher
Norris McWhirter
British publisher