ORTELIUS ABRAHAM Typus Orbis Terrarum 5BSecond plate third st

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ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Typus Orbis Terrarum. [Second plate, third state.] Double-page engraved world map. 330x480 mm plate size, ample margins, blank verso; original hand-color in full; three hard vertical creases through image, with two related old reinforcements on verso, two small holes in the southern continent. "Orbis Terrarum." in ink manuscript on verso. [Antwerp, circa 1580s]

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Van den Broecke 2.3, describing this edition: "Since this map occurs in few editions, it is very rare."