Pomponius Mela De orbis situ 1595
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MELA, POMPONIUS. De orbis situ libri III. & C. Iulii Solini,... quorum ille descriptionem singularum orbis terreni... Basilae (Sebastianum Henricpetri) 1595.
8:o. (32), 1-398, (2) pp. Printers woodcut device on last page, 33 partly folding woodcut maps (all, some minor marginal foxing). A few marginal annotations and underlinings to text. BOUND WITH:
NEANDER, MICHAEL. Orbis terrae succincta explicatio, seu simplex enumeratio distributa in singularum regiones... Lipsiae (sumtibus Iacobi Apeli, ex officina Abrahami Lamberg) 1597.
8:o. (64, last blank), 1-583, (22) pp. Title with woodcut printer´s device. Some old marginal annotations and underlinings to text. Last quire loose.
Contemporary vellum, partly worn and spotted, crack in upper hinge, spine with manuscript title, lacks first endpaper. Old annotations on inside of upper cover and endpapers, old signatures of Liliestråle and Johannes Holstenius on title to first work.
First work VD 16 M 2328. Second work VD16 N 406.
Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest Roman geographer. He was born in Tingentera (Algeciras) and died c 45 AD. The general views of the De situ orbis mainly agree with those current among Greek writers from Eratosthenes to Strabo, the latter was probably unknown to Mela. The first edition of the present work was printed in 1471.
Auktionsnummer:
6029
Date:
2016-12-20