Beschreibung:

ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Théâtre de l'univers, contenant les cartes de tout le monde. Antwerp: Christofle Plantin 1587. Folio, contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink, later leather ties (one lacking), endpapers renewed, covers stained, extremities rubbed, repairs to mapsheets 3, 6, 11, and 48 with loss to text on recto, a few other cleanly repaired tears, maps 12 and 42 each with an abrasion or stain partially effacing several place names, a few fold breaks, some repaired with slight loss to the image, headline of mapsheet 12 cropped, some marginal repairs, one or two touching map borders, a few small surface abrasions, one effacing 2 letters of text on mapsheet 7, small rust hole to mapsheet 83, affecting 3 letters of text on recto and a place name of the map, occasional creasing, some offsetting and show-through, minor marginal stains to the preliminary text leaves, occasional marginal dampstaining. Third French edition, title within engraved architectural border with allegorical figures, engraved portrait of Ortelius, 112 engraved mapsheets, the maps embellished with cartouches, arms, sea monsters, allegorical figures, ships and views, woodcut initials, THE TITLE, PORTRAIT, INITIALS AND MAPS FULLY COLORED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND, the text to map 73 a pasted-down cancel. Koeman III, Ort 22; Phillips/ Atlases , 392. Provenance : A few eighteenth-century annotations on blank versos of mapsheets.