Folio (430 x 295mm.), engraved portrait, and 105 (of 119) hand-coloured double-page maps, mounted on guards, numbered on recto (some with corrections of numbers in manuscript), ('Cenomanorum Galliae regionis [&] Britanniae et Normandiae typus' bound as map 22; 'Indiae Orientalis' bound as map 109, not called for in Koeman; map of Artois titled 'Atrebatum regionis vera descriptio' in cartouche), text in French, old vellum, lacking engraved allegorical title and 14 maps, some wear, repairs and staining, a few maps remargined, some headers cropped, a few maps and leaves becoming detached, binding worn

Burden 39 and 64; Koeman Ort 32 (minor variations in numbering of maps); Sabin 57693; Shirley 122; Tooley p.29-30

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate.
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LAST FRENCH EDITION OF ORTELIUS' THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM, OR "ATLAS OF THE WHOLE WORLD". "The publication of this atlas [Theatrum, 1570] marked an epoch in the history of cartography. It was the first uniformly sized, systematic collection of maps of the countries of the world based only on contemporary knowledge and in that sense may be called the first modern atlas" (Tooley).