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~ Masterpiece in splendid contemporary bright colouring ~
794 [Atlas - world]
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ORTELIUS, Abraham
- Theatre de l’Univers, contenant les cartes de tout
le monde. Avec une brieve declaration d’icelles. Par Abraham Ortelius. Le tout reveu, amendé,
augmenté de plusieurs Cartes declarations par le mesme autheur. M.D.XCVIII. (Antwerp, Plantin
Press for Abraham Ortelius, 1598), folio, 46,5 x 32 cm, cont. gilt overl. vellum, covers with triple
gilt ruled border and central ornaments (stained), gilt spine on 5 raised bands, a.e.g., [6] ff. (clear
waterstains on 1st quire), 119 folding maps, cont. col. (rather unobtrusive censor ink scribbling on
title, on +/- 37 sm. fig. and on initials, a few sl. split. margins of the c’folds of the maps over 1-4
cm, only once invading the image (Spain), tiny hole in map 99 (due to paper quality), tiny def. near
c’fold on a few maps (World, Europe, Frisia, Saxonia, Salzburg) due to transfer of paperflakes to the
opposite side). Very good large margined copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 40000/50000
Third French and last edition of the “Theatrum Orbis Theatrum” printed during the lifetime of the
great Antwerp cartographer Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598). The 1st two complete copies of this
ed. were delivered to J. Moretus on 6 July 1598 by Ortelius’ sister, 2 days after the death of her
brother Abraham. The 1st ed. of 1570 was continually revised and expanded for the next 40 years
(even after Ortelius’ death). The present ed. includes outer the
119 maps,
a
goldheightened engr.
allegorical t.-p.
and
a
portrait of Ortelius
,
all in a magnificent cont. bright colouring,
with a
detailed commentary. It is considered the
1st true atlas in the modern sense
: a collection of uniform
map sheets and accompanying text bound to form a book for which copper printing plates were
specifically engraved. Some of the characters (nude female fig.) on the cartouches are overwritten
by a censor because of prudery.
Undoubtedly a fine copy of what was the most influential atlas
ever published
.
Ref.
Koeman Ort 32. Van der Krogt IIIA, 31:351. Imhoff O-61.
795 [Asia]
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VAN OTTERLOO, Anthony
- Britsch-Indië, beschreven naar de nieuwste
bronnen. -
ID.
- China (...). Amsterdam, Gebr. Kraay, 1859, 1861, 2 vol., 8vo, cont. publ. cloth (sl.
rubbed & faded, 1 vol. def. at head & tail, splitting joints), [2]-iv-390, [10]-392 pp. (some minor
marg. staining). Good copies.
€ 80/120
1st ed.
of these richly illustrated and most extensive descriptions of British India and China, publ.
in the series “Vreemde Landen en Volken”. Each vol. ill. with a steel-engr. title,
double-page map,
and 24 full-page steel-engr. pls
. The 1st vol. describes i.a. Himalaya Mountainrange, Khyberpass,
Delhi, Delhi central mosque, Calcutta, Benares, Lucknow, Royal Palace Allababad, Elephant fight,
Taj-Mahal, Mausoleum of Akbar, Agra, Kutch landscape, Kabul, Karachi, Madras and Singapore,
etc. The 2nd gives a description and views of China: history of the Manchu dynasty, the Chinese and
domestic life, the imperial mountain palace, Tientsin, Nanking, Canton, European trading posts,
Hongkong, Macao Swatow, Amoy, the 2nd Chinese War, the Chinese Rebellion, etc.
Ref.
Tiele 834.
796 [Belgium - Antwerp]
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LE ROY, Jacques
- Notitia Marchionatus Sacri Romani Imperii, hoc
est urbis et agri Antverpiensis oppidorum, dominiorum, monasteriorum, castellorumque (...).
Amsterdam, Albertus Magnus, 1678, folio, cont. blindst. vellum (some stains on lower cover), spine
on 6 raised bands (sl. splitting upper joint), gilt brown leather title label, [4]-504-[4] pp. (some pls
outside collation trimmed to plate or more & underlaid, some browning, some tears repaired, edge
of pp. 387 cut off without loss of text). In all still a good copy.
€ 900/1100
First edition
of this important topographical & heraldic work by Le Roy (1633-1719). Contains a
nice engr. title
by A. van Diepenbeeck with on verso the engr. “schema metallorum”, printed title
mentioning the availability at Albertus Magnus’s,
19 double pls
outside coll. of which
2 maps
,
2 city
maps
and i.a. “couvent des chartreux à Lierre”, “castrum toparchiae de Broechem”, “Tungerloa”,
“Turnhout celebre Taxandriae municipium”, etc. and
64
(of 65, lacking Schilde)
smaller pls
showing
views of Wijnegem, Hoboken, Hemiksem, Westmalle, Kleidaal, Tongerlo, Turnhout, Corsendonk,
etc. With
+/- 150 ills in text
depicting coats-of-arms or ills of tombs.
Ref.
B.B. III 831-838 L-102.
STCN (4, i.a. 1 in BL), BnF.