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MELA, Pomponius (fl. ca. 43 A.D.). De situ orbis. - Julius SOLINUS. Polyhistor. - ANTONINUS Pius. Itinerarium. - VIBIUS Sequester, De fluminibus, fontibus et montibus. - Publius VICTOR. De regionibus urbis Romae. - DIONYSIUS Periegetes, De situ orbis Prisciano interprete. Venice: Andreas Torresanus at the Aldine Press, October 1518.
Aldine 8° (152 x 99 mm). Collation: a-z A-F8 G4. 236 leaves, q8 and G3 blank. Italic type. Woodcut printer's device on title and verso of last leaf. Initial spaces with guide letters. (Deleted inscriptions on title causing one small hole in blank margin, G3 rehinged, first and last leaves repaired at gutters.) Modern dark brown calf gilt and panelled in imitation of a 16th-century binding, upper and lower edges with early lettering (extremities rubbed, bifolia c2.3 and c4.5 misbound in each other's place).
Provenance: a very few minor 17th- or 18th-century marginalia or interlinear corrections, occasional underlining; deleted inscriptions on title; effaced booklabel on front pastedown.
First and only Aldine edition of Pomponius Mela, with other geographic works attributed to ancient authors. Pomponius Mela's De situ orbis is the earliest surviving classical Latin treatise on geography; Solinus borrowed from it heavily for his own geographical work. The collection was reprinted by Giunta in 1519 and by Paganini in 1521.
Adams M-1053; Brunet IV, 800-1; Renouard Alde, 83.6.
Aldine 8° (152 x 99 mm). Collation: a-z A-F8 G4. 236 leaves, q8 and G3 blank. Italic type. Woodcut printer's device on title and verso of last leaf. Initial spaces with guide letters. (Deleted inscriptions on title causing one small hole in blank margin, G3 rehinged, first and last leaves repaired at gutters.) Modern dark brown calf gilt and panelled in imitation of a 16th-century binding, upper and lower edges with early lettering (extremities rubbed, bifolia c2.3 and c4.5 misbound in each other's place).
Provenance: a very few minor 17th- or 18th-century marginalia or interlinear corrections, occasional underlining; deleted inscriptions on title; effaced booklabel on front pastedown.
First and only Aldine edition of Pomponius Mela, with other geographic works attributed to ancient authors. Pomponius Mela's De situ orbis is the earliest surviving classical Latin treatise on geography; Solinus borrowed from it heavily for his own geographical work. The collection was reprinted by Giunta in 1519 and by Paganini in 1521.
Adams M-1053; Brunet IV, 800-1; Renouard Alde, 83.6.