Ortelius’s pocket atlas with the Galle maps in fine colour
Epitome Theatri Orteliani Praecipuarum Orbis Regionum delineationes, monoribus tabulis expressas, brevioribusque declarationibus illustratas, continens. Nova editio, multis locis emendata & octodecim novis tabulis aucta.
Antwerp: Arnold Coninx for Filips Galle, 1595. Latin text edition. Oblong 8vo, contemporary vellum,109 maps in fine colour, each with a page of text,
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A sturdy example of Europe's first pocket atlas, containing maps reduced from Ortelius's Theatrum by Philip Galle.
The First Edition of 1577 had 72 maps; in 1588 Filips Galle engraved new plates, improving the quality of the maps, adding new maps as they were introduced in the larger 'Theatrum' atlas. This edition has 109 maps, 37 more that the first edition.
Condition:
Faint water stains in the margins of the first few maps.References:
KOEMAN: Ort 56.Related products
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