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C. Iulii Solini Polyhistor, rerum toto orbe memorabilium thesaurus locupletissimus. : Huic ob argumenti similitudinem Pomponii Melæ De situ orbis libros tres, fide diligentiaque summa denuò iam recognitos, adiunximus. His accesserunt præter priora scholia & tabulas geographicas permultas, Petri quoq[ue] Olivarii Valentini, uiri in geographia excellenter docti, annotationes, quibus & loci non pauci, à plerisq[ue] parum hactenus intellecti, dilucidè illustrantur, & uetustis locorum appellationibus recentiora sigillatim nomina subijciuntur. Cum gemino indice, quorum alter supra res alias memorabiles, locorum ac regionum omnium, marium ac sinuum nomina, alter uerò recentiores eorundem appellationes complectitur

Solinus, C. Julius, active 3rd century?, Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552, Oliver, Pedro Juan, 16th cent, Mela, Pomponius. De chorographia, Camers, Joannes, 1447-1546 · 1543 · Basileæ, : apud Mich. Isingrinium · 15 pictures

A 1543 Basel edition of Solinus's Polyhistor, a Latin compendium of wonders and geography, published by Michael Isengrin with added Pomponius Mela geography and maps by Sebastian Münster and Pedro Juan Oliver. Its woodcut maps show the ancient world with coastlines drawn in hatched outline, land labelled in capitals, and sea shown as plain white.

Solinus, C. Julius · Geography, Ancient · Geography · Imprint 1543

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