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(COMPOSITE ATLAS.) Abraham Ortelius; and Frans Hogenberg. Bound collection of sixteenth-century maps. 17 folded double-page engraved maps; wide margined with blank versos; repairs to wing folds with vellum tabs and old paper. Tall skinny folio, 16 1/4x6 inches, contemporary vellum, stained but sound, faded crest to upper cover. Antwerp and Cologne, 1570s-1580s
- Abraham Ortelius. Typus Orbis Terrarum. (World). Old hand-color. First plate with riveted crack repair, circa 1575.
- Frans Hogenberg. Germaniae Inferioris Omnium Accuratissima Delineatio. (Belgium, Netherlands, Germany). Old hand-color. Cologne, 1578. Schilder, Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica vol. I, p. 45-46; H.A.M. Van der Heijden, The Oldest Maps of the Netherlands, map 20, pages 143-45. Less than 10 institutional copies traced.
- Michael Aitzinger; and Frans Hogenberg. Leo Belgicus. (Zoomorphic map of Belgium and the Netherlands in the form of a proud lion). Cologne, 1588. Van der Heijden, map 27, pages 158-160, second state.
- Ortelius. Brabantiae Germaniae Inferioris Nobilissimae Provinciae Descriptio. (Duchy of Brabant, i.e. parts of Belgium and the Netherlands to encompass Rotterdam, Antwerp, and the upper Meuse River). Partial hand-color.
- Ortelius. Nobilis Hannoniae Comitatus Descrip. (Hainaut region of southern Belgium).
- Ortelius. Namurcum Comitatus. (Namur, central Belgium).
- Ortelius. Atrebatum Regionis Vera Descriptio. (Northern tip of the Hauts-de-France).
- Ortelius. Oost Ende West Vrieslandts Beschryvinghe Utriusque Frisiorum Regionis Noviss Descriptio. (Friesland, Netherlands). Dutch text on verso (1571 or 1573).
- Ortelius. Leodiensis Dioecesis Typus. (Central Belgium).
- Ortelius. Lorraine, Lotharingiae Nova Descriptio. (Lorraine region, northeast France).
- Frans Hogenberg. Galliae Regni Potentis, Nova Descriptio. (France). Cologne, 1583.
- Ortelius.Regni Hispaniae Post Omnium Editiones Locuplessima Descriptio. (Spain and Portugal).
- Ortelius. Deutschlanndt. Germaniae Typus. (Holy Roman Empire).
