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ORTELIUS (Abraham): [COMPOSITE TRAVELLING ATLAS, J.B.Vrients, Antwerp, early 17th century, after 1603]
tall folio (395 x 155mm), 30 hand-coloured engraved maps,all double-page and folding, the majority with outer sections neatly cut and rehinged,some contemporary with it's compilation, others restored in the late 17th century, versos blank, 1p manuscript table of contents in Italian, (many folds and lower margins cleanly torn, particularly to world and continent sheets, outer sections of four maps torn and detached, outer section of map of Flanders lacking, occasional spotting), contemporary limp vellum, covers panelled in gilt with central arabesques titled in manuscript 'Geografia', (ties lacking, lightly stained), front endpaper inscribed by Battista Perghini, detailing its purchase on the 14th March 1680 from the Sicilian in the Piazza Martyrii
A FINE COMPOSITE ATLAS of the early 17th century, probably purchased from Johann Battista Vrients in Antwerp by a North European client as suggested by the selection of maps, and later owned by Battista Perghini. The atlas includes the world and four continents, with maps of Germany,the low countries, England,Scotland and Ireland all, excepting one, by Ortelius. The majority of the maps are late impressions taken from the Theatrum and the Epitome, the latest dateable map being the Anglia map which was only published in the 1603 Vrients edition of the Theatrum [Shirley 258] . One map in this atlas is not associated with Ortelius; the atlas includes Vrients reissue of Cornelis de Hooghe's map of Holland published originally as a separate sheet in 1565, and later incorporated into Vrients atlas Germaniae Inferior vulgo Nederlandt,published in Antwerp in 1603. 6 copies of this map are recorded in the Netherlands, 15 elsewhere in the world.
tall folio (395 x 155mm), 30 hand-coloured engraved maps,all double-page and folding, the majority with outer sections neatly cut and rehinged,some contemporary with it's compilation, others restored in the late 17th century, versos blank, 1p manuscript table of contents in Italian, (many folds and lower margins cleanly torn, particularly to world and continent sheets, outer sections of four maps torn and detached, outer section of map of Flanders lacking, occasional spotting), contemporary limp vellum, covers panelled in gilt with central arabesques titled in manuscript 'Geografia', (ties lacking, lightly stained), front endpaper inscribed by Battista Perghini, detailing its purchase on the 14th March 1680 from the Sicilian in the Piazza Martyrii
A FINE COMPOSITE ATLAS of the early 17th century, probably purchased from Johann Battista Vrients in Antwerp by a North European client as suggested by the selection of maps, and later owned by Battista Perghini. The atlas includes the world and four continents, with maps of Germany,the low countries, England,Scotland and Ireland all, excepting one, by Ortelius. The majority of the maps are late impressions taken from the Theatrum and the Epitome, the latest dateable map being the Anglia map which was only published in the 1603 Vrients edition of the Theatrum [Shirley 258] . One map in this atlas is not associated with Ortelius; the atlas includes Vrients reissue of Cornelis de Hooghe's map of Holland published originally as a separate sheet in 1565, and later incorporated into Vrients atlas Germaniae Inferior vulgo Nederlandt,published in Antwerp in 1603. 6 copies of this map are recorded in the Netherlands, 15 elsewhere in the world.