Lot n° 85
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Travel - Geography
MELA (Pomponius)
Pomponii... - Lot 85 - Briscadieu
Travel - Geography
MELA (Pomponius)
Pomponii Melae de Situ Orbis libri III. Cum notis integris Hermolai Barbari, Petri Joannis Olivarii, Fredenandi Nonii Pintiani, Petri Ciacconii... Lugduni Batavorum, Luchtmans, 1722.
In-8; illustrated with numerous medals in the text, a folding plate and a folding map of the ancient world imagined by Pomponius Mela.
Antique stiff vellum, handwritten title on spine.
A classic work of late antique cosmography.
Copper engravings show coins from the Greek and Roman provinces, mythological and geodesic representations, including the curvature of the earth.
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