Ortelius, Abraham. Epitome Theatri Orbis Terrarum

De novo recognita, aucta, et geographica ratione restaurata à Michaele Coigneto. Antw., J.B. Vrints, 1609, (11),134,(3) lvs. With engr. title, 2 ills., full-p. celestial map, worldmap and view of the Escorial in the prel. pages, and 134 maps on the numb. lvs. Very finely bound in full calf in modern antique style, gilt-tooled, by La Feuille de Pélain, Michel Fassin (Barchon), obl. 8vo. Preserved in marbled board slipcase w. leather trim. Title p. lacks a strip of blank lower margin, final 10 lvs dam. in blank lower margin, all professionally restored; a few lvs trimmed at upper margin, affecting text of introd. leaf A2 and prel. leaf A7 and causing very narrow top margins of a few other lvs. Partly waterst./ fingersoiled, occas. other stains. The two worldmaps and the maps of the continents w. simple hand-col. borders.

Koeman/ Van der Krogt IIIA [333:02]. Pocket-sized atlas of which earlier editions were published by J.B. Vrints in 1601 and 1602, w. engravings by Philips Galle. Appearing in this 1609 edition are the finer engraved maps (w. indication of longitudes and latitudes) by Ambrosius and Ferdinand Arsenius, used before in the competitive Jan van Keerbergen edition of 1601, w. the text of Coignet.