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Mela, Pomponius
DE SITU ORBIS LIBRI III. CUM NOTIS INTEGRIS HERMOLAI BARBARI, PETRI JOANNIS OLIVARII, FREDENANDI NONII PINTIANI, PETRI CIACCONII, ANDREAE SCHOTTI, ISAACI VOSSII, ET JACOBI GRONOVII. ACCEDUNT PETRI JOANNIS NUNNESII ... ET JACOBI PERIZONII ... CURANTE ABRHAMO GRONOVIO.
Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Samuelem et Johannem Luchtmans, 1782.
8vo. [20], 520; [2], 521-1082, [54] pp. + engraved frontispiece by F. Bleyswyck after H. van der My + one folding engraved world map. 44 engravings in the text.

Contemporary vellum,  gilt borders and gilt coat of arms of Amsterdam on both covers.

$ 1000

"Editio tertia" of the Abraham Gronovius [1695-1775] edition of Pomponius Mela's De Situ Orbis [A Description of the World], also known as De Chorographia [Concerning Chorography], "the first extant geographical work in Latin and the only Roman treatise of the classical period devoted exclusively to that subject" ... "Pomponius assumed a spherical earth that lay in the middle of the world and was didvided into two hemispheres and five climatic zones. Three continents - Europe, Africa, and Asia - made up the habitable world, which was completely surrounded by a great ocean ..."Edward Grant). Ermolao Barbaro [1454-93]. Pedro Juan Nudnez, d. 1602. Jacobus Perizonius [1651-1715]. Andreas Schottus [1552-1629]. Isaac Vossius [1618-89].

* DSB, 11, pp. 74-6.