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ORTELIUS, Abraham. Theatre de L'Univers, contenant les cartes de tout le monde, avec une brieve declaration d'icelles. Antwerp: Gillis de Diest, 1572.
2° (425 x 485mm.). Elaborate engraved title border with the printed title-label pasted over, 53 double-page engraved maps of Europe and the World. (Outer margins of title and dedication close shaved with margins restored to size, occasional very light staining.) Contemporary calf, covers with central floral ringed arabesques (neatly rebacked and recornered).
FIRST FRENCH EDITION of Ortelius's Theatrum. Koeman Ort 4; Phillips 3391. This copy has the Bavaria map (number 29) in accordance with the Library of Congress copy. The Koeman collation describes the copy as having the Tipus Vindeliciae map.
2° (425 x 485mm.). Elaborate engraved title border with the printed title-label pasted over, 53 double-page engraved maps of Europe and the World. (Outer margins of title and dedication close shaved with margins restored to size, occasional very light staining.) Contemporary calf, covers with central floral ringed arabesques (neatly rebacked and recornered).
FIRST FRENCH EDITION of Ortelius's Theatrum. Koeman Ort 4; Phillips 3391. This copy has the Bavaria map (number 29) in accordance with the Library of Congress copy. The Koeman collation describes the copy as having the Tipus Vindeliciae map.