Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1848; on mount in ink: A Mintera of Salangore, Malay Peninsula; through image in pencil: A Mintera woman Salangore, Malay Peninsula
Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), rightly called the 'Father of Modern Cartography', developed the idea of assembling a compendium of maps to form an atlas. The first edition of his "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" was published in 1570 and it was a great…