An early and beautifully contemporary hand-coloured worldatlas by Ortelius.
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Complete copy, bound in a contemporary vellum binding, (8) 53 maps (29) Folio.Engraved architectural title with the figure of Europe at the top. With 53 contemporary handcoloured double-page engraved maps. H. 43 x W. 30 cm. / H. 16.90 x W. 11.8 inch.Rare early edition of Ortelius’ revolutionary atlas, first published in Antwerp in 1570 (also a Latin edition). Ortelius’ atlas was revolutionary because it was the first attempt to present the geography of the world in ...
€75.000
Maker : Ortelius, Abraham
Place : Antwerp, Gielis Coppens van Diest
Date : 1571
An attractive copy of this monumental work with all maps contemporay hand-coloured.
Parergon sive veteris geographiae aliquot Tabulae […]. Engraved title, 33 maps of the Ancient World, 2 plates with costumes and 3 views (“Tempe”, “Daphne” and “Escorial”).H. 43 x W. 30 cm. / H. 16.90 x W. 11.8 inch.A fine and complete copy of the Parergon by Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598), published in Antwerp in 1603. This celebrated companion to the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum represents one of the earliest and most influential works of historical cartography. The volume contains a ful...
€37.500
Maker : Ortelius, Abraham
Place : Antwerp, Jan Baptist Vrients
Date : 1603
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The first work to describe in print Australia, and California, Terra del Fuego, and other territories in the New World. Title-page and maps contemporary hand-coloured.
Cosmographie in Four Books Contayning the Chorographie & Historie of the whole World and all Provinces Seas and Isles Thereof. With an accurate and approved index of all the kingdoms, provinces, countries, inhabitants, people, cities, mountains, rivers, seas, islands, forts, bays, capes, forests,&c. of any remarque in the whole world: much wanted and desired in the former, and now annexed to this last impression, revised and coreected by the author himself immediately before his death.Engraved g...
€9.500
Maker : Heylyn, Peter
Place : London
Date : 1682