From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft
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From the Library of Cla🅺yre and Jay Michael Haft
Ortelius, Abraham
Theatro del Mondo. Venice: Turrini, 1655
8vo (132 x 88 mm). Half-title, title with vignette, 109 eꦫngraved maps; half-title with tape repair crossing letters, closely trimmed, just crossing within images of approximately ten maps. 18th-century vellum; endpapers renewed, a few small stains.
Second Italian edition of Ortelius’ 'Epitome' Theatrum, a handsome "pocket" version of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
REFERENCE:
See Koeman III, Ort 70; Phillips, Atlases 4259