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[Plantin Press - geography] - MELA, Pomponius

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[Plantin Press - geography] - MELA, Pomponius
[Plantin Press - geography] - MELA, Pomponius - De situ orbis libri tres [ed. Andreas Schottus]. Additae Hermolai Barbari Veneti, & Fredenandi Nonij Pintiani. Antwerp, Chr. Plantin, 1582 [as usual bound with] HERODOTUS - Geographica et historica Herodoti, quae Latine Mela exscripsit [ed. Andreas Schottus]. Antwerp, Plantin Press, 1582, 2 works in 1 vol., 4to, cont. limp vellum, I: 3 parts: 64-[16], 80 (= 84), 70-[2] pp. (blank II4 present), II: 28 pp. (browned and dampstained; title und upper margins damaged at top and underlaid with loss of a few letters). Acceptable copy. € 300/400 I : The first extant geographical work in Latin: a compendious treatise by the Roman geographer Pomponius Mela (1st c. A.D.), edited by the humanist (and later Jesuit) Andreas Schot (1552-1629). Engraved world map (dated 1582) by Abraham Ortelius (folded sheet). Woodcut mark on titlepage. Small crude woodcut map of continents in text. Bookplate M. Delasize / J.M. Thaurin, small stamp on titlepage. II : Excerpts from Herodotus'work, paraphrased by Pomponius Mela. Available separately or as an addition to Mela's work (as here). Woodcut mark on titlepage. Greek and Latin parallel texts. Ref. B. Typogr. 2075 or 5937. Voet, 2083. Sorgeloos 388. De Backer-Sommervogel VII c. 869 no. 3. Adams H-415.
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