11th Sep, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 71
 

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Mela, Pomponius Pomponii Melae de Situ Orbis Libri Tres...Opera et Studio Joannis Reinoldi....

Mela, Pomponius
Pomponii Melae de Situ Orbis Libri Tres...Opera et Studio Joannis Reinoldi. Eton: T. Pote, 1789. 8vo, leather-backed boards (boards detached but present); pp. [2], 64 [lacking Index]; 26 engraved folding maps. Editio Altera.
Mela was one of the first Roman geographers. This work was first written in c.43AD and is the only formal treatise on this subject in classical Latin, bar certain parts of Pliny's Historia naturalis (which use Mela as a source).

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Auction: Books, Maps & Ephemera, 11th Sep, 2019

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