Map of Wales "Cambriae Typus" by Humphrey Lhuyd [Llwyd] This is the earliest published map of Wales as a separate region from the rest of Great Britain. It was published by Abraham Ortelius, in the 1573 "Additamentum" to the 1570 publication of "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum". This coloured map has been cut from the publication and pasted onto card. 1573