ORTELIUS, Abraham (1528-98). Typus Orbis Terrarum. Antwerp, 1576 [or later].

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ORTELIUS, Abraham (1528-98). Typus Orbis Terrarum. Antwerp, 1576 [or later].

Single sheet (393 x 554 mm). Hand-colored engraved map (some browning and staining, some worming affecting image, a few marginal tears and wrinkles).

Engraved map of the world, engraved by Francis Hogenberg, French text on verso, fully colored, state 2 of Shirley's Plate 1, with the trace of a crack in the plate at lower left corner and the cloud border reworked. "A simplified one-sheet reduction of Mercator's large world map" Shirley 122.

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