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Pomponii Melae de situ orbis libri tres : cum Petri Ioannis Oliuarij Valentini, uiri in geographia doctissimi, scholijs. : Hermolai Barbari in eundem Pomponivm Melam castigationes. C. Iulii Solini Polyhistor, siue rerum orbis memorabilium collectanea, partim ad uetustissimorum exemplarium fidem restituta, partim scholijs illustrata. ; rerum ac uerborum in hisce omnibus memorabilium trigeminus index

Mela, Pomponius, Barbaro, Ermolao, 1454-1493, Solinus, C. Julius, active 3rd century? Polyhistor, German Americana Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library) RPJCB · 1536 · [Basel : Rob. Winter] · 2 pictures

A 1536 Basel edition of Pomponius Mela's geography of the world, with commentaries by Oliveira and Barbaro and the Polyhistor of Solinus, printed by Robert Winter for Latin-reading scholars and students of geography. The first picture shows an armillary sphere in a woodcut framed by ornamental pilasters and foliage, under the running head 'Circuli sphaerae', while the second shows a terrestrial globe with Greek and Latin wind names around its margin, both usable as classical-style scientific engravings for historical design references.

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