Accession number
PML 77078.1
Creator
Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598.
Published
Antverpiae : Auctoris aere & cura impressum absolutumq́ue apud AEgid. Coppenium Diesth, M.D. LXX [1570]
Credit line
Gift of Elise B. Hille in memory of her father-in-law Frederick William Hille, 1981.
Notes
"De Mona druidum insula ... epistola ... Humfredi Lhuyd": p. [1]-[6] of 2nd group. "Antiqua regiorum, insulanum, urbium ... adjectis": p. [7]-[59] of 2nd group.
Explanatory historical text on rectos of plates. Maps engraved chiefly by F. Hogenberg.
Imprint from colophon.
Includes index.
PML copy: plate number differs from that in Koeman; includes several additional plates - numbered (with text) and unnumbered (with legends in Spanish or Italian, but without text); total number of plates 76.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: title page and map 20.
Signatures: A⁸ a-e⁶.
Explanatory historical text on rectos of plates. Maps engraved chiefly by F. Hogenberg.
Imprint from colophon.
Includes index.
PML copy: plate number differs from that in Koeman; includes several additional plates - numbered (with text) and unnumbered (with legends in Spanish or Italian, but without text); total number of plates 76.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: title page and map 20.
Signatures: A⁸ a-e⁶.
Description
[32], [60] pages, 53 folded leaves of plates : maps ; 43 cm (fol)
Inscriptions/Markings
All plates hand colored. Contemporary marginal and interlinear annotations throughout.
Provenance
Franciscus Scheffer (signature), W.R. Scheffer, May 1748 (inscription); Frederick William Hille, through inheritance to: Elise B. Hille.
Binding
Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards.
Classification
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Department