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ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527-1598). Theatro de Mondo..trasloto in Lingua Tuscana dal Sig. Fillippo Pigafetta. Antwerp: Jan Baptist Vrients 1608.
3 parts in one volume including the Parergon, 2° (460 x 290mm). Engraved allegorical title, with letterpress title overslip with full-page engraved portrait of Pope Clement on verso architectural border to Parergon title, large Plantin device on Nomenclator title, engraved dedication, portrait of Ortelius, and 5 diagrams in the text. 194 engraved maps on 154 sheets, 5 double-page plates of landscapes, all on guards, most double-page, FULLY COLOURED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND AND MANY HEIGHTENED IN GOLD, numerous woodcut ornamental initials. (Some browning and spotting, occasionally heavy, title, final leaf and 5 early leaves with margins neatly restored, several repaired tears, some offsetting.) Seventeenth century Italian red morocco, covers panelled in gilt with central Cardinals' arms, spine gilt in seven compartments, gauffered gilt edges (spine neatly rebacked preserving old spine, edges restored, lightly rubbed, a few stains, edges rubbed.).
A FINE COLOURED COPY OF THE FIRST ITALIAN EDITION OF THE THEATRUM. In 1601 the heirs of Ortelius sold Vrients the plates and rights to the Theatrum including an Italian manuscript translation of the work by Pigafetta. Vrients expanded the edition to include a number of new maps after Hessels, and he also added an Introduction to Cosmography written by Michel Coignet. This copy lacks 2 of the new Hessels maps but these particular maps (Genoa and Ferrara) are often found wanting. One further Italian edition was issued in 1612 when Vrients sold on the plates to the Officina Plantiniana. A rare atlas, Koeman records 8 copies of this edition. The colouring of this copy is particularly fine with careful gold highlighting to many of the maps particularly on the cartouche tracery, titles and decorative detail. Koeman III Ort 38.
3 parts in one volume including the Parergon, 2° (460 x 290mm). Engraved allegorical title, with letterpress title overslip with full-page engraved portrait of Pope Clement on verso architectural border to Parergon title, large Plantin device on Nomenclator title, engraved dedication, portrait of Ortelius, and 5 diagrams in the text. 194 engraved maps on 154 sheets, 5 double-page plates of landscapes, all on guards, most double-page, FULLY COLOURED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND AND MANY HEIGHTENED IN GOLD, numerous woodcut ornamental initials. (Some browning and spotting, occasionally heavy, title, final leaf and 5 early leaves with margins neatly restored, several repaired tears, some offsetting.) Seventeenth century Italian red morocco, covers panelled in gilt with central Cardinals' arms, spine gilt in seven compartments, gauffered gilt edges (spine neatly rebacked preserving old spine, edges restored, lightly rubbed, a few stains, edges rubbed.).
A FINE COLOURED COPY OF THE FIRST ITALIAN EDITION OF THE THEATRUM. In 1601 the heirs of Ortelius sold Vrients the plates and rights to the Theatrum including an Italian manuscript translation of the work by Pigafetta. Vrients expanded the edition to include a number of new maps after Hessels, and he also added an Introduction to Cosmography written by Michel Coignet. This copy lacks 2 of the new Hessels maps but these particular maps (Genoa and Ferrara) are often found wanting. One further Italian edition was issued in 1612 when Vrients sold on the plates to the Officina Plantiniana. A rare atlas, Koeman records 8 copies of this edition. The colouring of this copy is particularly fine with careful gold highlighting to many of the maps particularly on the cartouche tracery, titles and decorative detail. Koeman III Ort 38.
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