Live auction - Lot 922
[Geography]
De orbis situ libri III. & C. Julii Solini, Polyhistor. Quorum ille descriptionem singularum orbis terreni partium atq[ue] regionum [...].
Basel, S. Henricpetri, 1595
€ 1.500 / 2.000
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Lot description
8vo, 2 parts with continuous pagination: [32]-398-[2] pp.; 33 woodcut maps (t.-p. soiled, light marginal dampstains, margins toned).
18-19th-c. vellum, flat spine, red sprinkled edges (notes in pencil on front endpaper).
Geographical manual (1st 1471), with annotations by Johannes Oporinus (pp. 102-132). The second part contains the "Polyhistor" or "De mirabilibus mundi" of Solinus, description of the "wonders" in Antiquity. Illustrated with 33 maps printed on 32 leaves. Henricpetri's device on reverse of last leaf. Ref. VD-16 M-2328. - Adams M-1065 (20 and 10 maps). - STC German 608. - Soltész M-438. - Not in Sabin (other ed.), Machiels.