Polyhistor, rerum toto orbe... &
Mela, Pomponius
De situ orbis, libros tres
Basel, Isingrin. 1543
Graesse VI.1.431; Buhrmeister 172; Asia map: Sweet, nr 1; Burden nr 11
Two books in one volume.
In folio, 32,3x 20,6 cm
In contemporary, limp vellum. In a modern slipcase
Old manuscript title on front plate and spine.
Solinus: 10 nn leaves;
Title page with printers device: Palma Ising (Isingrin)
pp 1-144 including 15 maps, of which two folding and double page:
Greece in classical times and
Asia major on a unnumbered double folio
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Chronographia..
Sevilla, Alonso escribano. 1576
(Palau 67454; Picacosta 201; Map, see Burden, nr 15)
In quarto, recased in modern limp vellum
274 lvs of which the first 10 are not numbered. Historiated initials.
Title with portrait of the author
2 full page woodcuts (Geocentric universe 112, recto and the medical Zodiac man 236 verso)
19 half page woodcuts of Zodiac signs
2 terrestrial hemispheres, West and East, the West ( 95 in verso) being an early map of the Americas (Burden 15); the east 91 verso
43 woodcuts representing various stages of the moon
Many numerical tables
Modern binding in style and new ...
