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ORTELIUS, Abraham (1528-1598). Epitome Theatri Orteliani. Antwerp: C. Plantin, 1589.
Small oblong 8° (110 x 145mm). Latin text, letterpress title with printer's device, engraved allegorical plate, 94 hand-coloured engraved maps with text on verso. (Leaf A8 detached and rebound between A1 and A2, a few neat repairs, light surface soiling with occasional marginal browning, erasure to final leaf and light worming affecting endleaves.) Contemporary vellum stamped with oval cartouche and fleurons, with leather ties (slightly cockled, decoration rubbed). Provenance: erased inscription on title dated 1651; manuscript annotations to text in various hands dating from 17th and 19th centuries; Jacques Arnold (d.1820), a doctor in Neufchâteau, inscription in brown ink dated 1821 -- Alexandre Auguste Marechal de Neufchateau, inscription in brown ink dated 1849 -- inscription in brown ink regarding the Diocese of Liège and the Duke of Brabant -- an inventory, inscription in brown ink dated 1844.
The pocket version of Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Ortelius's friends, Philip Galle, the engraver, and Pieter Heyns, the poet, are traditionally credited with the initiative for this reduced format atlas. Heyns, who had translated the Theatrum into Dutch for the 1571 edition, composed the text in verses, which accompanies the hand-coloured maps engraved by Galle. This enormously popular version of Ortelius's atlas was also translated into French, and continued to be published with varying printers and engravers through to the 18th century. Koeman III Ort 53; Phillips, Atlases 394
Small oblong 8° (110 x 145mm). Latin text, letterpress title with printer's device, engraved allegorical plate, 94 hand-coloured engraved maps with text on verso. (Leaf A8 detached and rebound between A1 and A2, a few neat repairs, light surface soiling with occasional marginal browning, erasure to final leaf and light worming affecting endleaves.) Contemporary vellum stamped with oval cartouche and fleurons, with leather ties (slightly cockled, decoration rubbed). Provenance: erased inscription on title dated 1651; manuscript annotations to text in various hands dating from 17th and 19th centuries; Jacques Arnold (d.1820), a doctor in Neufchâteau, inscription in brown ink dated 1821 -- Alexandre Auguste Marechal de Neufchateau, inscription in brown ink dated 1849 -- inscription in brown ink regarding the Diocese of Liège and the Duke of Brabant -- an inventory, inscription in brown ink dated 1844.
The pocket version of Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Ortelius's friends, Philip Galle, the engraver, and Pieter Heyns, the poet, are traditionally credited with the initiative for this reduced format atlas. Heyns, who had translated the Theatrum into Dutch for the 1571 edition, composed the text in verses, which accompanies the hand-coloured maps engraved by Galle. This enormously popular version of Ortelius's atlas was also translated into French, and continued to be published with varying printers and engravers through to the 18th century. Koeman III Ort 53; Phillips, Atlases 394
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