1722 POMPONII MELA De Situ Orbis ARMORIAL VELLUM BINDING antique

POMPONII MELAE

 De Situ Orbis Libri III.

Ed. A. Gronovius.


Leyden, S. Luchtmans, 1722


(80),811,(36)p.

Engraved frontispiece, folding map and text illustrations. 


 Very good condition. Lacks ties. Occasional foxing.

Bookplate of Six van Hillegom on upper pastedown. 



Size 5 by 8"

Original schoolprize vellum binding  with gilt coat of arms of IJsselstein (Netherlands) within floral borders and corner fleurons on all corners on both covers.


Text in Latin

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Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest Roman geographer.
He was born in Tingentera (now Algeciras) and died c. AD 45.

His short work (De situ orbis libri III.) remained in use nearly to the year 1500
 It occupies less than one hundred pages of ordinary print, and is described by the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) as "dry in style and deficient in method, but of pure Latinity, and occasionally relieved by pleasing word-pictures."
Except for the geographical parts of Pliny's Historia naturalis (where Mela is cited as an important authority), the De situ orbis is the only formal treatise on the subject in Classical Latin.
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