Roma Roma Roma Lazio Italia Italy carta mappa carta xilografia Heyns Ortelius 1598

Amsterdam, Zacharias Heyns 1598. Extremely rare and unusual, old-colored woodcut map out of Zacharias Heyns’s edition of Ortelius’ "Epitome". -- Size of sheet: c. 16 x 20,5 cm. With French text on verso. -- in very good condition. --With this exceptional pocket edition of the «Theatrum Orbis Terrarum», the publisher, a son of Peter Heyns, wished to thank Walter del Prato, a Cologne merchant, for marrying his niece. He presented this «Miroir du monde» as an enlargement of his father’s bestseller and a tribute to him.

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