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1081 - POMPONIUS MELA, *De orbis situ*, 3 books. & C. Julius Solinus, *Polyhistor*. In which the former provides a description of the individual parts and regions of the earthly globe [...]. Basel, St. Henricpetri (1595), 8vo: [32]-398-[2] pp.; 33 plates on 32 folios (some normal age-toning, slight marginal wormholes in the blank margin of some folios in the last part). 18th-century vellum, ink title on flat spine (hinges weakening). Geographical manual (1st ed. 1471), with annotations by Johannes Oporinus (pp. 102–132). The second part contains Solinus’s “Polyhistor” or “De mirabilibus mundi,” a description of the “wonders” of antiquity. Illustrated with 33 woodcut maps printed on 32 leaves. Henricpetri’s coat of arms on the reverse of the last leaf. Ref. VD-16 M-2328. - Adams M-1065 (20 and 10 maps). - STC German 608. - Soltész M-438. - Not in Sabin (other ed.), Machiels.
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POMPONIUS MELA, *De orbis situ*, 3 books. & C. Julius Solinus, *Polyhistor*. In which the former provides a description of the individual parts and regions of the earthly globe [...]. Basel, St. Henricpetri (1595), 8vo: [32]-398-[2] pp.; 33 plates on 32 folios (some normal age-toning, slight marginal wormholes in the blank margin of some folios in the last part). 18th-century vellum, ink title on flat spine (hinges weakening). Geographical manual (1st ed. 1471), with annotations by Johannes Oporinus (pp. 102–132). The second part contains Solinus’s “Polyhistor” or “De mirabilibus mundi,” a description of the “wonders” of antiquity. Illustrated with 33 woodcut maps printed on 32 leaves. Henricpetri’s coat of arms on the reverse of the last leaf. Ref. VD-16 M-2328. - Adams M-1065 (20 and 10 maps). - STC German 608. - Soltész M-438. - Not in Sabin (other ed.), Machiels.
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