{"product_id":"ortelius-theatrum-orbis-terrarum-with-the-pareregon-with-superb-original-color","title":"Ortelius' Theatrum orbis terrarum with the Pareregon with Superb Original Color","description":"\u003cp\u003eORTELIUS, Abraham (1527–1598).\u003cbr\u003eTheatrum orbis terrarum -- Pareregon, sive veteris geograpiæ aliquot tabulae -- Nomenclator ptolemaicus; omnia locorum vocabula quæ in tota Ptolemæi Geographia occurrunt, continens: ad fidem Græci codicis purgatus; \u0026amp; in ordinem non minus vtilem quàm elegantem digestus.\u003cbr\u003eAntwerp: Abraham Ortelius for the Officina Plantiniana, 1595.\u003cbr\u003eTHE FIRST MODERN ATLAS, WITH SUPERB ORIGINAL COLOR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrtelius, Abraham. Theatrum orbis terrarum.\u003cbr\u003ebound with\u003cbr\u003eOrtelius, Abraham. Pareregon, sive veteris geograpiæ aliquot tabulae.\u003cbr\u003eand with\u003cbr\u003eOrtelius, Abraham. Nomenclator ptolemaicus; omnia locorum vocabula quæ in tota Ptolemæi Geographia occurrunt, continens: ad fidem Græci codicis purgatus; \u0026amp; in ordinem non minus vtilem quàm elegantem digestus. Antwerp: Abraham Ortelius for the Officina Plantiniana, 1595.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFolio in 6s and 2s (17 3\/4” x 12 1\/8”, 451mm x 308mm; leaves without guards 11”, 280mm): 2 binder’s blanks, A6(–A6) B6(–B1) A6 B1, 1-1152; a4 2A-N2 O2 P-Z2 2a-i2; 3A-C6 [6s $4 signed, 2s $1 signed; –A1, A4; 2i1 mis-signed as “h”]. Theatrum and Parergon unpaginated; Nomenclator pp. 1-4 5-30, [5], blank. With an engraved title-page, an engraved portrait frontispiece of Ortelius and 147 (115 in the Theatrum, 32 in the Parergon) double-page map-sheets, each with text verso; all hand-colored by a contemporary hand and heightened in gilt. Collated complete against van der Kroegt-Koeman, with A6-B1 mis-bound after B6.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBound in modern quarter calf over solid oak by Stuart and James Brockman. On the spine, six raised bands. Title gilt to the second panel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConserved by Brockman, minimizing extensive water-damage to the lower quarter of the text-block. Sporadic loss to the lower edge of the text. Lavish coloration, heightened in gilt, throughout, including to some initials throughout the text, and to woodcuts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbraham Ortelius (1527–1598) is the father of modern atlas-making; he was the first to gather maps of a regular format systematically into a comprehensive book. From the first edition of the Theatrum orbis terrarum (1570, Theater of the world), Ortelius himself drew or re-drew the maps; unlike most cartographers (before or since) he was explicit in his source material. The Catalogus auctorum, the list of sources for his maps, which in the present edition had grown to 170 names from 87 initially, is in the present copy mis-bound but present. Beyond the maps, Ortelius provides apposite text — in the present item in Latin, but he also published Dutch, German, French, Spanish and English — on the verso of each map-sheet, an eminently useful idea imitated by Braun \u0026amp; Hogenberg and a great many others over the following centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication history of the Theatrum is nuanced, but can be simplified into five “expansions” of the original edition (issued with 53 maps): the 1573 expansion (70 maps), 1579 (93 maps), 1584 (112 maps), 1590 (134 maps) and 1595 (151 maps). The present item can, therefore, be considered the first edition of the “full” set of Ortelius’s maps destined for the Theatrum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 1579 expansion saw the introduction of the Parergon (πάρεργον, Appendix), which contains maps of antiquity, both real and fictional (the itinerary of Aeneas in Vergil’s Aeneid). The third component, the Nomenclator ptolemaicus (Ptolemy’s monitor), which is a sort of gazette of the place-names in Ptolemy’s Geography, began as part of the Theatrum but was issued separately (as the Synonomia Geographia and later the Thesaurus Geographicus) from 1578. The Nomenclator and Catalogus auctorum appear, with a few exceptions, only in Latin editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKoeman Ort 29; van der Kroegt-Koeman 31:051.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"aradernyc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46328511004716,"sku":null,"price":350000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1156\/7956\/files\/74.jpg?v=1791083284","url":"https:\/\/aradernyc.com\/products\/ortelius-theatrum-orbis-terrarum-with-the-pareregon-with-superb-original-color","provider":"Arader Galleries","version":"1.0","type":"link"}