Mela, Pomponius

INCUNABULA GEOGRAPHY Cosmographi de situ orbis.

      Franciscus Renner de Heilbronn,, Venice 1478 - One of the most sought after of the early editions of this geographic treatise of Pomponius Mela, the first-century earliest Roman geographer, which agrees in most of its views with the great Greek writers from Eratosthenes to Strabo. He writes that the world can be divided east and west into hemispheres, Asia on the east and Erope and Africa on the west. 48 leaves complete. The only defect being that first leave was damaged and the margins have been renewed. The actual leave is slightly damaged with a loss of a few letters of the text. Else a perfect copy with wide margins. Bound in contemporary vellum, with some slight remainders of a manuscripts [Attributes: Hard Cover]