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Folio (460 by 290mm), three parts in one volume, including the Parergon, engraved allegorical title, with letterpress title overslip with full-page engraved portrait of Pope Clement on verso, architectural border to Parergon title, large Plantin device on Nomenclatur title, engraved dedication, portrait of Ortelius, and five diagrams in the text, 194 engraved maps on 154 mapsheets, five double-page plates of landscapes, all on guards, mostly double-page, fully coloured by a contemporary hand and many heightened in gold, numerous woodcut ornamental initials, some browning and spotting, title, final leaf and five early leaves with margins neatly restored, several small repaired tears, some offsetting, seventeenth century Italian red morocco, central gilt ruled panel with cardinal’s arms at centre and floral cornerpieces, spine gilt in seven compartments, gauffered gilt edges, spine neatly re-backed, edges restored, lightly rubbed [together with] autograph letter from Joannes Vryfpenninck (Terenumus)\nto Abraham Ortelius, in brown ink on paper, Lisbon, 15 June 1561, folio (310 by 210mm), one and a half pages of text in Latin and Dutch, addressed on lower half of the page, attached to a stub, some paper reinforcing over black areas on verso, wax seal, small tear, slightly affecting three words of the text.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By ORTELIUS, Abraham, 1608","protected":false},"featured_media":21001,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[410],"product_cat":[5660,4953,588],"product_tag":[957,652,440],"product_campaign":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21000","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_brand-rare-atlases","7":"product_cat-dcrb-atlases","8":"product_cat-all-stock","9":"product_cat-world-and-continents","10":"product_tag-atlas","11":"product_tag-ortelius","12":"product_tag-world","13":"subjects-atlases","14":"subjects-world-and-continents-atlases","15":"locations-world-and-continents-2","17":"first","18":"outofstock","19":"sold-individually","20":"purchasable","21":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\nThe 'Vrients' Atlas with a letter to Ortelius explaining how to smuggle heretic and erotic prints past the Inquisition - 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