SOLINUS, C[aius] Julius (second half 3rd-century AD) - CAMERS, Giovanni Ioannis (1468-1546)

in. C.IVLII Solini [Polyhistora] Enarrationes. Additus eiusdem Camertis Index, tum literarum ordine, tum rerum notabiliu copia percomodus Studiosis

      [Colophon:] Vienna, Austria: Johannes Singrenius for Lucas Alantse, 1520. [Colophon:] Vienna, Austria: Johannes Singrenius for Lucas Alantse, 1520. Folio (12 x 8 inches). Letterpress title within historiated woodcut border. Folding woodcut map "Tipvs Orbis Vniversalis ivxta Ptolomei Cosmographi traditionem et Americi Vespvcii!" by Peter Apian (Shirley 45) dated 1520, woodcut printer's and publisher's devices and initials (expertly washed). 19th-century calf gilt by Bedford; brown morocco gilt solander box by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Provenance: 19th-century ink library stamp at foot of title-page; bookplate of Henry Huth (1815-1878), bibliophile, on the front paste-down; bookplate of Bernardo Mendel (1894-1971), bibliophile, gifted to; the Lilly Library at Indianna University, their duplicate ink stamp on the verso of the colophon. THE HUTH-MENDEL-LILLY LIBRARY COPY Containing the celebrated and EARLIEST OBTAINABLE MAP TO NAME "AMERICA". The world map prepared by Peter Apian is preceded in naming "America" only by and modeled on the large 1507 wall map by Waldseemulle, of which only one example remains. The "Polyhistora" of Solinus was first printed in Venice in 1473, but this is the first edition with American interest. North and South America are represented as narrow strips of land separated by a wide channel. The northern continent is called merely "Terra incognita," but the southern has the inscription: "Anno d 1497 haec terra cum adiac?tib', insulis inuenta est per Columbum Ianuensem ex mandato regis Castellae America p'uincia." From the distinguished and important libraries of Henry Huth, Bernardo Mendel and the Lilly Library in Indianna. Burden pp. xxiv-xxv; Church 45; Sabin 86390; Shirley 45. Purchased privately for $6,875 in 1991. Catalogue description prepared for and on behalf of Arader Galleries by Kate Hunter. .