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1081 - POMPONIUS MELA De orbis situ libri III. & C. Julii Solini, Polyhistor. Quorum ille descriptionem singularum orbis terreni partium atq[ue] regionum [...]. Basel S. Henricpetri (1595) 8vo: [32]-398-[2] pp.; 33 pl. on 32 ff. (some normal age-toning, sm. marg. wormtrack in bl. margin of some ff. in the last part). 18th-c. vellum, ink title on flat spine (hinges weakening). Geographical manual (1st 1471), with annotations by Johannes Oporinus (pp. 102-132). The second part contains the "Polyhistor" or "De mirabilibus mundi" of Solinus, description of the "wonders" in Antiquity. Illustrated with 33 woodcut maps printed on 32 leaves. Henricpetri's device on reverse of 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 libri III. & C. Julii Solini, Polyhistor. Quorum ille descriptionem singularum orbis terreni partium atq[ue] regionum [...]. Basel S. Henricpetri (1595) 8vo: [32]-398-[2] pp.; 33 pl. on 32 ff. (some normal age-toning, sm. marg. wormtrack in bl. margin of some ff. in the last part). 18th-c. vellum, ink title on flat spine (hinges weakening). Geographical manual (1st 1471), with annotations by Johannes Oporinus (pp. 102-132). The second part contains the "Polyhistor" or "De mirabilibus mundi" of Solinus, description of the "wonders" in Antiquity. Illustrated with 33 woodcut maps printed on 32 leaves. Henricpetri's device on reverse of 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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