Mar 30, 2006 - Sale 2074

Sale 2074 - Lot 32

Price Realized: $ 10,350
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. 53 double-page uncolored engraved mapsheets. Folio, contemporary vellum; lacking all preliminaries and 4 terminal text leaves, heavily restored throughout with loss to all maps along the fold (repaired), some staining; copious inked notes of a contemporary owner, usually on the text pages, but sometimes in the margins of the maps. should be seen. sold as is. Antwerp, 1570 or later

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Probable First or a very early edition, but impossible to determine given the absence of the preliminaries.