Accession number
PML 33485
Creator
Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598.
Published
[Antwerpiae : Ex Officina Plantiniana, Abrah. Ortelii aere & cura, M.D.XCV [1595]]
Credit line
Gift of J.P. Morgan, 1936.
Notes
Imprint from t.p. of Nomenclator.
Includes: "Parergon, sive, Veteris geograpiae [sic] aliquot tabulae", "Nomenclator Ptolemaicus", "De Mona druidum insula ... epistola ... Humfredi Lhuyd". Register at end includes all titles.
Parergon and Nomenclator have special engraved t.p.
Plates engraved by F. Hogenberg, Ferdinand and Ambrosius Arsenius, Jan Wierix (Parergon), and Papius (portrait of Ortelius).
Signatures: A-B⁶ + plates (Theatrum); a⁴ A-Z² a-i² (Parergon); a-c⁶ (Nomenclator).
All plates (including title pages) hand colored.
Includes: "Parergon, sive, Veteris geograpiae [sic] aliquot tabulae", "Nomenclator Ptolemaicus", "De Mona druidum insula ... epistola ... Humfredi Lhuyd". Register at end includes all titles.
Parergon and Nomenclator have special engraved t.p.
Plates engraved by F. Hogenberg, Ferdinand and Ambrosius Arsenius, Jan Wierix (Parergon), and Papius (portrait of Ortelius).
Signatures: A-B⁶ + plates (Theatrum); a⁴ A-Z² a-i² (Parergon); a-c⁶ (Nomenclator).
All plates (including title pages) hand colored.
Description
[12] leaves, 115 double leaves of plates; 4 leaves, 32 double leaves of plates; 30, [6] p. (the last p. blank) : maps, port. ; 47 cm
Provenance
"Al sig G.E. Gower, 1841; G.L. Gower, 1842"; both inscriptions on t.p.
Binding
Modern 1/4 calf, tan cloth.
Classification
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Department