Full title: Theatrum orbis terrarum : opus nunc denuò ab ipso auctore recognitum, multisquè locis castigatum, & quamplurimis nouis tabulis atquè commentarijs auctum.

Author/creator: Hogenberg, Frans, approximately 1539-1590, Llwyd, Humphrey, 1527-1568. De Mona druidum insula, Rade, Gilles van den, approximately 1541-1615?, Grattan, James, NSL, Lee, Alfred, 1858-1923. NSL, Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598.

Date: MDLXXV [1575]].

Call Numbers: MRB/X912/7C (16th Century)

Record Identifier: 74VKOOArKMAg

Language: Latin

Formats: Books

Contents: [10] leaves, [70] double leaves of plates, [48] leaves : 70 maps ; 43 cm. (fol.)

Publishers: [Antverpiae : Auctoris aere & cura impressum, absolutumq́ue apud Radaeum Gandensem, MDLXXV [1575]]

Notes: Imprint from colophon, where place of printing follows name of printer. Signatures: A⁶ B⁴ a-h⁶. Engraved title page with female allegories of the 5 continents. They are explained in Adolf van Meetkercke's "Frontispicii explicatio" (A2v-A3v). Catalogus auctorum on A5v-B1r lists 105 names. The 70 numbered double-page sheets, tipped onto stubs at the centerfold, bear 96 maps, with descriptive letterpress on the recto of each first leaf. The legends of most maps name the author whose map Ortelius adapted. In his preface dated 1570 Ortelius credits Franciscus Hogenberg with engraving nearly all the maps (A5r). "De Mona Druidum insula ... epistola ... Humfredi Lhuyd" (h3r-h5v) Includes indexes, B1v-B3r and a1r-h2v. Mitchell Library copy : maps and title page are hand-coloured. Loss of text on leaves 10r and 21r; missing text on leaf 21r is supplied in manuscript. Bookplates of David Scott Mitchell and Alfred Lee on front pastedown; inscription of James Grattan at head of title page. Bound in kangaroo hide by Frank Heyner of the State Library (1920), blind-tooled in 16th-century style. Retrospective Project 2008-10.

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