Lot n° 793

Atlas - world - HEYNS, Peter - Le miroir du monde, reduit premierement en rithme brabançonne, par M. P. Heyns, et maintenant tourné en prose Françoise (...) Theatre d'Abraham Ortelius (...). Anvers, Chr. Plantin for Philip Galle, 1583

Estimation : 600 / 600
Adjudication : 2 600 €
Description
obl. 4to, cont. calf (rubbed, stained, some sm. holes), triple blindstamped & 1 gilt ruled border on covers, central gilt orn., gilt spine on 4 raised bands (rubbed, def. on head & tail), (lacking text ff. ++1, f. 1 & 24, world map & map of Switzerland torn out, stains on 1st ff., waterstains, some marg. soiling).  First French ed. of this innovative pocket-atlas, previously edited in Dutch as "Spieghel der Werelt", by the engraver Philips Galle and the rhetorician Peter Heyns (1537-1598). Comprising 80 miniature maps (4 double, folded), reductions of those in Abraham Ortelius' "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum". With 1 engr. "Speculum mundi" and 2 small marg. drawings. Loosely inserted, 2 small Ortelius maps: "Patavianum" (worming) & "Corsica".
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