2
Ortelii Theatrum orbis
g. fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 126, no.
ii, as above, but reading
gr. fol.
ORTELIUS
, Abraham.
Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm. Opus nunc denuo ab
ipso Auctore recognitum, multisquè socis castigatum, & quamplurimis nouis
Tabulis atquè Commentarijs auctum. [-Parergon, sive Veteris Geographiæ Aliqvot
Tabvlæ . . . Historiæ Ocvlvs Geographia--Nomenclator Ptolemaicvs; Omnia Locorvm
Vocabvla qvæ in tota Ptolemæi Geographia occurrunt, continens: ad fidem
Græci
codicis purgatus; & in ordinem non minus vtilem quám elegantem digestus.
Antverpiæ: ex officina
Plantiniana,
m. d. xcv.
Abrah. Ortelij ære & cura.]
[1595.]
G1015 .O2
1595
Folio. 3 parts in 1.
Engraved title within an engraved architectural and symbolic border, engraved
portrait within an ornamental border, 12 leaves, 115 double-page maps, numbered
with signatures 1-115
2,
with text printed on the recto of the first leaf; title for Parergon, as above,
within an ornamental border, 4 leaves of text, 32 double-page maps, with text
on the recto of the first leaf, with signatures A-Z, a-i
2; title for
Nomenclator Ptolemaicvs, with
imprint, and
Plantin’s compass device, 18 leaves with signatures A-C
6. The preliminary matter
includes a number of poems and a
Catalogvs Avctorvm Tabvlarvm Geographicarvm on 5
pages.
Brunet III,
580.
This edition only mentioned by Sabin in the note to the English edition of
1606, no. 57708.
Van der Aa, XIV, p. 209.
Tiele, page 185.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated
manuscript catalogue, without price.
Abraham Ortelius, 1527-1598, a
native of Antwerp, is considered, next to Mercator, the greatest geographer of
his age. He travelled extensively, and was at one time a map engraver, before
becoming a scientific geographer. In 1570 he published the first edition of his
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum with
53 maps, and in 1573 published 17 supplementary. Numerous editions were
published, in Latin, French, German, English and other languages. The map
Maris Pacifici, dated 1589,
and first published in the edition of 1592, is the earliest in which the two
American Continents are named:
Americae septentrionalior pars, and
Americae meridionalior pars.
In this edition of 1595, eleven maps relate to America. The engraver was F.
Hogenberg.
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Jeffery’s American Atlas
g. fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 124, No. I, as above,
but reading
fol
gr.
JEFFERYS,
Thomas.
The American Atlas: or, A Geographical
Description of the Whole Continent of America: wherein are delineated at large,
its several Regions, Countries, States, and Islands; and chiefly the British
Colonies, composed from numerous Surveys, several of which were made by Order
of Government. By Major Holland, Lewis Evans, William Scull, Henry Mouzon,
Lieut. Ross, J. Cook, Michael Lane, Joseph Gilbert, Gardner, Hillock, &c.
&c. Engraved on Forty-nine Copper Plates, by the late Mr. Thomas Jefferys,
Geographer to the King, and Others.
London: printed and sold by
R. Sayer and
J.
Bennett
,
mdcclxxviii
.
[1778.]
Map
Div.
Folio. 2 preliminary leaves, 30 engraved
maps of which 29 are double-page.
Sabin 35953
(in the note).
This edition not in Phillips.
Not in the John Carter Brown
Catalogue.
Jefferson bought a copy from
Stockdale, who in a letter dated August 3, 1787, reported that he had sent it
to Jefferson in Paris the previous day, price £
2. 12. 6. It is entered by him
in his undated manuscript catalogue, price
63.
Thomas
Jefferys
, d. 1711, English map engraver, was geographer to the Prince
of Wales, afterwards George III. For another work by him, see no. 4000.
See also the next following entry.
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