Jun 07, 2012 - Sale 2280

Sale 2280 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Epitome Theatri Oreteliani. Hand-colored engraved allegorical plate, 94 hand-colored maps. Oblong small 8vo, 150x110 mm, modern crushed morocco; title-page supplied from an edition of 1595, repairs at edges to A2, maps quite clean, some repairs to terminal map (colophon). Antwerp, (1589)
Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

Complete according to the plate list, with the colophon on the verso of map 94. Two maps are clearly from another edition: Palestina (numbered 104 instead of 89) and Natolia (numbered 105 instead of 90); suggesting that they are from the edition of 1595.