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ORTELIUS, Abraham (1528-1598). Theatro del Mondo. Venice: [G. M.] Turrini, [1655].
16° (137 x 89mm). Title-page with vignette, typographical and metalcut ornaments and initials, 109 engraved maps. (Lacking half-title and dedication leaf, several maps trimmed to plate mark, first few leaves with some slight marginal worming not affecting text, inner margin of 'Lettore' leaf crudely repaired affecting initial on recto and map on verso.) Vellum-backed boards (with a few small worm holes (extremities rubbed, boards scuffed). Provenance: deleted library ownership inscription on title-page; Adolfo Baudiri(?) (presentation inscription, from Raffaello Cardini, on free endpaper); L. A. Vespucci (signature on free end-paper).
SECOND ITALIAN EDITION of a so-called 'Epitome' Theatrum. Although editions in Dutch, Latin and French, were produced before the Italian edition, the latter might justifiably be considered a separate enterprise. The plates for the Italian editions were printed along with the text in Italy. For the non-Italian editions the task of reducing Ortelius's maps to such a small format was intially the work of Philip Galle, and then later of the brothers Ambrosius and Ferdinand Arsenius. Koeman III Ort 70.
16° (137 x 89mm). Title-page with vignette, typographical and metalcut ornaments and initials, 109 engraved maps. (Lacking half-title and dedication leaf, several maps trimmed to plate mark, first few leaves with some slight marginal worming not affecting text, inner margin of 'Lettore' leaf crudely repaired affecting initial on recto and map on verso.) Vellum-backed boards (with a few small worm holes (extremities rubbed, boards scuffed). Provenance: deleted library ownership inscription on title-page; Adolfo Baudiri(?) (presentation inscription, from Raffaello Cardini, on free endpaper); L. A. Vespucci (signature on free end-paper).
SECOND ITALIAN EDITION of a so-called 'Epitome' Theatrum. Although editions in Dutch, Latin and French, were produced before the Italian edition, the latter might justifiably be considered a separate enterprise. The plates for the Italian editions were printed along with the text in Italy. For the non-Italian editions the task of reducing Ortelius's maps to such a small format was intially the work of Philip Galle, and then later of the brothers Ambrosius and Ferdinand Arsenius. Koeman III Ort 70.