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Sale 2706 - Lot 207

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(TITLE PAGES.) Group of 8 sixteenth-century engraved allegorical atlas title pages. Vp, vd
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- Abraham Ortelius. Theatro d'el Orbe de la Tierra. 18x11 inches; original hand-color with gold highlights; verso with the elaborately decorative arms of Philip II; soiling, small repairs, ink marginalia. Antwerp, 1612 (Spanish edition, final edition).

- Abraham Ortelius. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. 17¾x11½ inches; original hand-color with gold highlights; poem in Latin on verso; soiling, ink marginalia. Antwerp, 1592.

- Braun & Hogenberg. Civitates Orbis Terrarum. 15½x10 inches; Latin dedication on verso; minor soling and ink marginalia, volume number at lower center masked off when printed. Cologne, [1572].

- Braun & Hogenberg. Beschreibung und Contrafactur der Vornembster Stätt der Welt (separately-printed German title slip pasted within the decorative engraved frame. 15x10½ inches; Latin dedication on verso; light soiling and edge wear. Colonge, 1574.

- Braun & Hogenberg. De Praecipuis, Totius Universi Urbibus, Liber Secundus. 16x10½ inches; Latin dedication on verso; original hand-color; light wear. Cologne, circa 1580.

- Braun & Hogenberg. Urbium Praecipuarum Totius Mundi, Liber Tertius. 15¾x11 inches; Latin text on verso; hand-colored; light soiling, edge wear. Cologne, circa 1580.

- Braun & Hogenberg. Urbium Praecipuarum Totius Mundi, Liber Quartus. 16¼x10¾ inches; Latin text on verso; light staining but no major damages. Cologne, circa 1580.

- Braun & Hogenberg. Urbium Praecipuarum Mundi Theatrum Quintum. 15¼x10 inches; blank verso; hand-colored; cleaned, small repairs. Cologne, circa 1580.

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