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SOLINUS, Caius Julius. Polyhistor, Basel: M. Insingrinius and H. Petrus, 1538. 20 woodcut maps and plates, two of them folding (water-stain and spotting to last gathering). [Bound with:] VADIANUS, Joachim (1484-1551). Epitome trium terrae partium, Zurich: C. Froschouer, 1534. Publisher's device on title-page, decorative woodcut initials (faint water-stain to margins, early marginalia on verso of title, lacking map). [Bound with:] MELA, Pomponius. De Orbis Situ, Paris: C. Wechel, 1530. Engraved allegorical borders to title and divisional title, woodcut initials (light scattered spotting). 3 works in one volume, 4° (295 x 197mm), later sheep, sides ruled and tooled in blind, red morocco lettering piece to spine (rubbed, front joint starting at foot). Solinus: Burden Cartography of North America 11; Mela: Mortimer, Harvard French 371 (note); JCB I, p. 102; Alden 530/30; Harrisse BAV, 157; Sabin 63958. Vadianus: JCB I, p. 460; Sabin 98279; Shirley 70.
A COLLECTION OF EARLY GEOGRAPHY, INCLUDING THE FIRST INSINGRIN EDITION OF SOLINUS, edited by Münster -- a landmark in the mapping of North America, containing 'the earliest representation of the north-west coast of America on a printed map' (Burden). It is also possibly the first map to show Asia as a whole. The maker of this map is unknown, but Münster has been suggested. Bound with Vadianus's influential description of the world, mentioning America in the section on Oceanic Islands, and the early Roman geographer Pomponius Mela.
A COLLECTION OF EARLY GEOGRAPHY, INCLUDING THE FIRST INSINGRIN EDITION OF SOLINUS, edited by Münster -- a landmark in the mapping of North America, containing 'the earliest representation of the north-west coast of America on a printed map' (Burden). It is also possibly the first map to show Asia as a whole. The maker of this map is unknown, but Münster has been suggested. Bound with Vadianus's influential description of the world, mentioning America in the section on Oceanic Islands, and the early Roman geographer Pomponius Mela.
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