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SOLINUS, Caius Julius (fl. 250). Polyhistor, rerum toto orbe memorabilium thesaurus locupletissimus [and:] MELA, Pomponius. De situ orbis libros tres. Basle: Michael Isingrin, 1543.
2 parts in one volume, 4° (307 x 200mm). Printer's device on title and to verso of final blank, historiated initials, woodcut maps including PETER APIAN'S FAMOUS DOUBLE-PAGE MAP OF THE WORLD, Tipus Orbis Universalis iuxta Ptolomei Cosmographi ... MDXX and two further folding double-page maps, wood-engraved illustrations. (The double-page world map cropped by approximately 18mm at each fore-edge, tear to 'Asia Maior' folding map along crease fold without loss, marginal tear to m1 with old paper repair, some worming, with title and following few leaves heavily affected, variable spotting and staining, leaves e2-3 loose, gathering q misbound). Contemporary limp vellum, recent endpapers (extremities rubbed, some light worming and very small chips and splits to joints, stitching broken). Provenance: ink manuscript marginalia in a contemporary hand -- slightly later ink manuscript annotations.
A LANDMARK OF AMERICAN CARTOGRAPHY. Peter Apian was an astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and printer. His cordiform (heart-shaped) 1520 map is based upon the Ptolemaic tradition, but it is enhanced with information from the voyages of Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci. The map was frequently bound into the 1520 Viennese edition of Solinus and Mela's Basle editions of 1522, although it rarely occurs in this later combined publication of the two works. The present work is the second edition, the first appearing in 1538, edited by Sebastian Münster. It has been suggested that Münster is the cartographer for the 'Asia Maior' folding map which contains 'THE EARLIEST REPRESENTATION OF THE NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA ON A PRINTED MAP' (Burden). It takes the form of a land mass in the upper right corner labeled 'Terra Incognita,' and shown with a small bay, trees, and hills. Burden further notes that the Asia Maior map shows one of the first delineations of a strait between Asia and America, some two hundred years before Bering's voyages to the region. Shirley 45 (Apian world map); Adams S-1394; Burden 11; Nordenskiöld Collection II, 285 (first ed. 1538; cf. II, 181 and II, 284 for earlier eds of Solinus and Mela to include Apian's map).
2 parts in one volume, 4° (307 x 200mm). Printer's device on title and to verso of final blank, historiated initials, woodcut maps including PETER APIAN'S FAMOUS DOUBLE-PAGE MAP OF THE WORLD, Tipus Orbis Universalis iuxta Ptolomei Cosmographi ... MDXX and two further folding double-page maps, wood-engraved illustrations. (The double-page world map cropped by approximately 18mm at each fore-edge, tear to 'Asia Maior' folding map along crease fold without loss, marginal tear to m1 with old paper repair, some worming, with title and following few leaves heavily affected, variable spotting and staining, leaves e2-3 loose, gathering q misbound). Contemporary limp vellum, recent endpapers (extremities rubbed, some light worming and very small chips and splits to joints, stitching broken). Provenance: ink manuscript marginalia in a contemporary hand -- slightly later ink manuscript annotations.
A LANDMARK OF AMERICAN CARTOGRAPHY. Peter Apian was an astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and printer. His cordiform (heart-shaped) 1520 map is based upon the Ptolemaic tradition, but it is enhanced with information from the voyages of Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci. The map was frequently bound into the 1520 Viennese edition of Solinus and Mela's Basle editions of 1522, although it rarely occurs in this later combined publication of the two works. The present work is the second edition, the first appearing in 1538, edited by Sebastian Münster. It has been suggested that Münster is the cartographer for the 'Asia Maior' folding map which contains 'THE EARLIEST REPRESENTATION OF THE NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA ON A PRINTED MAP' (Burden). It takes the form of a land mass in the upper right corner labeled 'Terra Incognita,' and shown with a small bay, trees, and hills. Burden further notes that the Asia Maior map shows one of the first delineations of a strait between Asia and America, some two hundred years before Bering's voyages to the region. Shirley 45 (Apian world map); Adams S-1394; Burden 11; Nordenskiöld Collection II, 285 (first ed. 1538; cf. II, 181 and II, 284 for earlier eds of Solinus and Mela to include Apian's map).
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