Property from the Collection of
The Late HARLAN NISSEN
ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. [Théatre de l'Univers]. Antwerp: Gillis van Diest 1572. Folio, 409 x 278 mm. (16 1/16 x 10 7/8 in.), contemporary calf, covers with gold-blocked and azuré center- and corner-pieces, rebacked, most of original gilt backstrip laid down, new endpapers; modern folding linen case; lacking title-leaf and maps 34 (Piedmont) and 51 (Palestine), preliminary text leaves and maps 1-5 with upper and/or fore-margins renewed, marginal repairs, mainly at gutter margins, to nearly all the remaining maps, entering platemarks of maps 6, 7, 40, 44, and 45, maps 2 and 9 with repairs at gutter causing loss to engraved surface, repaired tears or small holes to maps 4, 5, 13, 14, 20, 28 and 29, map 36 with edges frayed, some mostly marginal worming, a few maps browned at gutters from paste used on new guards. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, 51 (of 53) double-page engraved maps, most by Frans Hogenberg, most embellished with ships or sea creatures, captions within elaborate scrollwork cartouches, letterpress text on rectos, woodcut capital initials, ruled in brown ink throughout, with last leaf blank. Alden 572/41; Koeman III, Ort 4; Phillips 3391. The maps are those of the 1570 edition, the first modern geographical atlas, a compilation of the best maps of the period re-engraved to uniform size.
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ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. [Théatre de l'Univers]. Antwerp: Gillis van Diest 1572. Folio, 409 x 278 mm. (16 1/16 x 10 7/8 in.), contemporary calf, covers with gold-blocked and azuré center- and corner-pieces, rebacked, most of original gilt backstrip laid down, new endpapers; modern folding linen case; lacking title-leaf and maps 34 (Piedmont) and 51 (Palestine), preliminary text leaves and maps 1-5 with upper and/or fore-margins renewed, marginal repairs, mainly at gutter margins, to nearly all the remaining maps, entering platemarks of maps 6, 7, 40, 44, and 45, maps 2 and 9 with repairs at gutter causing loss to engraved surface, repaired tears or small holes to maps 4, 5, 13, 14, 20, 28 and 29, map 36 with edges frayed, some mostly marginal worming, a few maps browned at gutters from paste used on new guards. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, 51 (of 53) double-page engraved maps, most by Frans Hogenberg, most embellished with ships or sea creatures, captions within elaborate scrollwork cartouches, letterpress text on rectos, woodcut capital initials, ruled in brown ink throughout, with last leaf blank. Alden 572/41; Koeman III, Ort 4; Phillips 3391. The maps are those of the 1570 edition, the first modern geographical atlas, a compilation of the best maps of the period re-engraved to uniform size.