130 - Macrobius, A.T.

Macrobius, A.T. *Consularis in Somnium Scipionis*, 2 books. The same author’s *Saturnalia*, 7 books. Now revised and expanded in many places. Cologne, Johann Soter, 1527. 12° (14 x 9.3 cm). [24] leaves, 463 pp., with printer’s mark on the title page, several illustrated initials, and 7 woodcuts, including 1 world map by Anton Woensam of Worms. Parchment binding incorporating a manuscript leaf from the 18th century. Adams M 61. Graesse IV, 330 note. Merlo, Woensam 514, 541, 542. VD16 C 3640. - Third Cologne edition of the commentary on Cicero’s “Somnium Scipionis,” from Book 6 of “De re publica.” - With four notable previous owners, the philosophers: I. Jacob Bernays (1824–1881) – II. Otto Neurath (1882–1945) – III. Herbert Spiegelberg (1904–1990) and IV. Ferdinand Bulle (1886–1943). The entries by O. Neurath include the additions “Münchener Angeden Rens 1919” and “XAIPE O.N.MCMV”; the entries by H. Spiegelberg and F. Bulle, written in the same hand, are dated “XII 1936” and “MCMXXXVI.” - Particularly famous is the world map, whose southern hemisphere is covered by a large continent bearing the inscription “Perysta temperata, antipodum nobis incognita, frigida,” thus joining the ranks of the almost mythical conceptions of a great southern continent. The remaining woodcut illustrations depict schematic models and spheres. - Binding scuffed and bumped; front inner joint slightly split; bookseller’s stamp from a Munich antiquarian bookstore on the inside cover; edges slightly trimmed (minimal loss of text in the printed notes); overall, a well-preserved copy with an interesting provenance.