[Rarebooks] fa: POMPONIUS MELA: De situ Orbis + GAIUS JULIUS SOLINUS: Cosmographia 1646

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Auction ending Sunday, October 16. Images and more details can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Many thanks,
Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


Pomponius Mela; Gaius Julius Solinus: Pomponius Mela : De situ Orbis : C. Ivlii Solini Polyhistor. : Aethici Cosmographia : Cum Notis Variorum. Lugdunum Batavorum: Hieronymum de Vogel, 1646. Small 12mo (12.5 cm) in early/period mottled calf, gilt-tooled spine and spine label, marbled endpapers, pages edges dyed red; engraved title-page, [18], 577, [1] pp.

Two works by ancient geographers in one volume. Binding with wear to the spine ends and corners, text block with various degrees of damp-staining to the leaves, mostly fairly light, else clean and sound, firmly bound.