210 - BERTIUS, Pierre.

BERTIUS, Pierre. Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum Libri Quinque, cum…. Second Edition. Amsterdam, published by Cornelius Nicolai, 1603. Large 12mo in Italian style, (16)-679-(9) pp., engraved title page and frontispiece. Slightly later marbled fawn sheepskin, smooth spine decorated with gilded panels, fawn morocco title label, gilt title, blind-stamped fillets framing the covers, edges speckled with red (covers slightly faded and lightly rubbed, edges slightly rubbed, a few leaves of the preface trimmed short at the top, a few scattered foxing spots, a small angular wormhole with no loss of text, minor marginal defects but a fine copy). Description: Illustrated with 174 maps, planispheres, globes, or bird’s-eye views, etched in black, including 2 world maps, 1 map of the sky, 113 of Europe, 16 of Africa, 27 of Asia, and 15 of the Americas. Second edition published in Amsterdam by Cornelis Claesz, based on the Latin edition of the pocket atlas *Caert-Thresoor*, originally compiled by Barent Langenes with geographical descriptions by the Flemish scholar Pierre Bertius (1565–1629). A fine copy. 19th-century bookplate from the Bibliothèque de la Montagne, bearing the coat of arms of Duval de Lunas d’Espenilles, engraved by Agry in Paris.