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ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527-1598). Theatrum orbis terrarum. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1579.
2o (423 x 199). 93 engraved mapsheets. Text and maps on guards throughout. Part II, the Nomenclator, bound before Part I. (Lacking A1-4, containing the engraved title and 3 preliminary leaves, dampstaining throughout, about 20 maps with clean splits at center folds, creasing to 7 maps, 7 maps with internal tears or repairs, some darkening along center folds, occasional small stains.) 19th-century vellum over pasteboard, modern endleaves. Provenance: Lionel H. Pries (bookplates).
First Plantin edition, and the first edition with the Parergon and the Nomenclator Ptolemaicus. In this copy 15 of the maps are from one of the earlier Antwerp editions (1573 or 1574), with Plantin's new map numbers in manuscript on pasted-down slips covering the original printed numbers on rectos. Adams O-336; Koeman III, Ort 15A.
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First Plantin edition, and the first edition with the Parergon and the Nomenclator Ptolemaicus. In this copy 15 of the maps are from one of the earlier Antwerp editions (1573 or 1574), with Plantin's new map numbers in manuscript on pasted-down slips covering the original printed numbers on rectos. Adams O-336; Koeman III, Ort 15A.