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

Author/creator: Hogenberg, Frans, approximately 1539-1590, Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589, Llwyd, Humphrey, 1527-1568. De Mona druidum insula, Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598.

Date: 1579..

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

Record Identifier: 74VKOOjEk0Al

Language: Latin

Formats: Maps

Contents: , 1 atlas ([20] p, 93 double leaves, 77, [9] p.) : 93 maps, port., ; 44 cm. (2°), Folded map between pages 1 and 2 Typus orbis terrarum

Publishers: Antverpiae : Auctoris aere & cura impressum, absolutúmque apud Christophorum Plantinum, 1579.

Notes: "Catalogus auctorum": A⁵ verso - B² recto, listing 120 names. Maps chiefly engraved by Franz Hogenberg (author's preface, A5recto) Copies have been hand coloured in various ways, or left uncoloured. Engraved title page with female allegories of the 5 continents. Imprint from colophon on G7 verso. Includes "Parergon theatri": maps 91-93 with caption title, "Nomenclator Ptolemaicus": with separate title page with printer's device and imprint (a6, B6-F6, G1-G3r), and Humfredi Lhuyd's "De Mona Druidum insula" (G3 verso-G6 verso) Includes index: B1 verso-B2 verso. Signatures: A6, B4, folios numbered 1-93, a6, B-F6, G8. Register on G7 verso. G8 is blank. Mitchell Library copy at MRB/X912/7D (16th Century) signed, 'D.S. Mitchell' and stamped Librairie Ch. Chadenat ... Paris. Coloured maps, title page and portrait of author. Mitchell Library copy at MRB/X912/7E (16th Century) has David Scott Mitchell bookplate and Alfred Lee bookplate. Uncoloured copy, bound in kangaroo with blind tooling in 1920 by Frank Heyner in the State Library. Retrospective Project 2008-10.

Citation / references note: Fletcher & Smith, 1507 uncoloured. Fletcher & Smith, 1508 coloured.

Additional physical form availability note: World map entitled: Typus orbis terrarum online via the State Library of NSW at: http://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?embedded=true&toolbar=false&dps_pid=IE4431722

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DDC: 910

MMS ID: 991022464759702626